Product various opinion evaluation system capable of generating special feature point and method thereof

ABSTRACT

A product various opinion evaluation system including one or more computing devices being a remote computing device and/or at least one client device communicable with the remote computing device, and a method applied therewith, can receive positive review information and negative review information related to a product that are inputted in the one or more computing devices by at least one user or through at least one product review message; perform positive and negative review semantics analysis on the positive and negative review information; generate positive and negative feature points of the product based on the positive and negative review semantics analysis; and generate at least one special feature point by merging the positive and negative feature points based on similarity therebetween, through which consumers can swiftly understand a conflict point of the product and focus of marketing can be located for the advertisers and manufacturers of the product.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No.63/118,996, filed Nov. 30, 2020. The entire content of the aboveidentified application is incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a various opinion evaluation systemcapable of generating at least one special feature point for at leastone product that can be a piece of good or a service and method thereof,and more particularly to a product various opinion evaluation systemthat generates at least one special feature point based on positive andnegative feature points of one or more products and special featurepoint generation method thereof.

BACKGROUND

The primary purpose of marketing is to establish a long-termrelationship with clients. Therefore, finding out the needs and desiresof customers, and measuring the extent of the effort and expense thatmust be spent to satiate such needs and desires, as well as thepotential profitability resulting therefrom, have always been majorissues facing business entities. Before the Internet became popular, oneof the commonly used marketing methods for goods and services was tocreate or find catchphrases, and then use catchphrases to promote andmarket goods or services. However, after the Internet becomes popular,keyword advertising, which targets consumer behavior and is moreaccurate, has emerged as a new way of promotion and marketing, andallows, for example, relevant advertisements to be placed according toconsumer personal data, such as keywords related to age, gender,occupation, etc.; or according to consumer online behavior and data,such as the website(s) a consumer has visited, the actual location(s)where the consumer has checked in or been located, purchases made and/orthe online goods the consumer has purchased or used, etc.

In comparison, traditional advertising strategies involve an advertiserpresuming beforehand consumer groups such as students, white-collarworkers, elderly, etc., and then paying an advertising and marketing feeto an advertising entity such as a newspaper agency, a televisionstation, etc.; the advertising entity offering advertising content on amedium, such as a newspaper or television channel, for a fixed period oftime for consumers to read and watch and for their reference; and then,the advertiser evaluating the effectiveness of such advertising. Thatis, traditional advertisement placement only carries out one-wayadvertisement casting and promoting on newspapers, magazines, radio,television, etc., and therefore is prone to the problem ofadvertiser-consumer mismatch.

However, in recent years, more accurate online advertisement placementcan be achieved by analyzing consumer individual behavior, which greatlyreduces the aforementioned problems, enables an advertiser, for example,a goods manufacturer or a service provider, to get closer to its targetconsumers, and enables consumers to receive less irrelevant oruninterested advertisement information. In this way, not onlyineffective or lowly-effective advertising expenditures can be reducedfor advertisers, but also the product information which consumers needor are interested in can be received by such consumers more quickly.Moreover, as a result of reduced ineffective advertising expenditures,consumers can enjoy cheaper products due to lowered marketing costs.

Nevertheless, the current keyword placement model of online advertising,whether based on consumer personal data or consumer online behavior, cangenerate too many source keywords or be not accurate enough, leading tooverexposure of the source keywords preset by advertisers, increasedadvertising costs resulting therefrom and from keyword bidding, andincreased marketing time costs. Accordingly, consumers can also benegatively impacted by retail product price increase.

For example, cosmetics advertisement placement based on consumerpersonal data may target Internet users who are from country T and arewomen aged 18-25. Or, advertising may be based on consumer onlinebehavior and data resulting therefrom which may exemplarily include aconsumer entering a keyword related to a S-brand fine watch, browsing onthe official website of the S-brand fine watch, or purchasing a S-brandfine watch. In this way, when a consumer meeting the aforementionedcondition(s) browses through other websites later on, advertisements ofinformation corresponding to the product, such as a cosmeticadvertisement, a S-brand fine watch advertisement, etc., will continueto appear on such websites.

Different from the fee payment methods of traditional advertising,current online keyword advertising involves consumers consuminginformation first, for example, pop-up advertisements popping up onwebpages, consumers clicking on advertisements, etc., and then theadvertising budget preset by an advertiser being deducted accordingly.That is to say, when it comes to online keyword advertisingexpenditures, consumers rather actively consume advertisements andadvertising budgets.

Nevertheless, the aforementioned marketing fee payment methods have beenknown for inviting issues as detailed infra. Specifically, as anadvertiser would provide specific preset advertising subjects orkeywords, for example, those related to the conditions of “women aged18-25” and “Internet users from country T” to advertising agents toplace keyword advertisements, as long as a user satisfying theabovementioned conditions comes into contact with any of theadvertisements placed, the budget for the advertisement is expendedaccordingly. Further, regardless of whether there are malicious clicksby competitors of the advertiser, such as continuously expendingadvertisements by using qualified users, malicious advertisingcontractors defrauding advertisements, such as illicit audio-visualwebsites generating a large number of background pages to satisfyadvertisement hit conditions, or simply, different advertisers in thesame industry competing for consumers in the same sector, for example,the cosmetics industry bidding for sunscreen products that target thesame 18-25 year-old consumers, there will be mismatch betweenadvertisers and consumers, which increases invalid advertisingexpenditures and increases product retail prices.

In addition, regarding advertisement placement based on consumer onlinebehavior, with continued reference to the abovementioned exemplaryS-brand fine watch and the conditions of “browsing the official websiteof the S-brand fine watch” and “purchase of the S-brand fine watch”, acurrent advertising model may assume that consumers are continuouslyinterested in the S-brand fine watch, and therefore continues placingsuch advertisements, and the placement continues regardless of whethersuch a consumer, after browsing on the official website of the S-brandfine watch, decides that the S-brand watch does not meet his or herneeds and leaves the official website, which can incur invalidadvertising expenditures and can annoy consumers by excessive unfittingadvertisements.

It can thus be known that the current methods of online keywordadvertisement placement, despite its seeming convenience as compared toone-time fixed-time and fixed-amount newspaper and/or televisionadvertisement placement, and its seeming higher precision in terms ofconsumer receiving advertisements that really interest them, can ratherincur increased advertising cost and loss to both advertisers andconsumers when the number of keywords increases and the matchingaccuracy remains not high enough.

On the other hand, for consumers, multitudinous advertising informationon webpages has become so overwhelming, if not unbearable, that one caneasily be ensnared therein before product specification information andtrustworthy reviews that one really needs can be quickly found. Forexample, among such common online dissemination methods of merchandiseinformation can be product placement, Internet celebrity recommendation,shopping-website buyer comments, large-online-forum user reviews, andmerchandise review websites. Among such, product placement, whileallowing an advertiser to determine by itself the content and format ofadvertisements entirely based on its interests to the maximum extent,does not directly answer to consumer needs, since it does notnecessarily show the product features consumers care about. Likewise,recommendation made by an Internet celebrity can quickly attractconsumers through the celebrity effect, but it does not directly answerto consumer needs and does not necessarily show the product featuresconsumers care about. Further, while buyer comments on shopping websitesmay, by providing product information that has been digested and isfirsthand and personal, lower consumers' prior-purchase mental barriers,as the content and format thereof are generally informal andunsystematic, consumers often need to read a lot of comments beforefinding comments that meet their needs, forcing consumers to spend a lotof time and effort. Furthermore, user reviews on large online forums,while being presented in a more organized and comprehensive way comparedto the comments on shopping websites, their format can be too personalto be suitable for consumers having different cultural backgrounds andreading habits. In comparison, merchandise review websites may provideconsumers better reading experience and efficiency because of theirestablished basic common editorial formats for different reviews, andtherefore providing relatively consistent presentation of productinformation even if such reviews are written by different users.Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement of the currentinformation presentation layouts of merchandise review websites.

Specifically, a current merchandise review website may separately listthe basic information and the reviews of a piece of goods in twoeditable areas on a webpage, so that a user may look up the basicinformation and the reviews of the goods on the same webpage. Further,such a webpage also bears keyword information generated by the contentof the reviews, for example, by sorting out multiple keywords throughspecific algorithms from the content of various reviews on the goodsthat are inputted by multiple users in the review fields provided by thewebsite, and a user can click on the hyperlinks of the keywords tobrowse on the reviews related to the keywords. Nevertheless, suchkeywords and the reviews related thereof are displayed regardless oftheir inner characters. For example, a keyword “spicy” may be used byone consumer who enjoys spicy food in a review as a positive characterof a food product, while another consumer who does not enjoy spicy foodso much may address the keyword “spicy” in another review as a negativecharacter of the food product. Accordingly, when other users click onthe hyperlink of the keyword “spicy”, both positive reviews and negativereviews are displayed mixedly, which requires the users to go through alot of reviews before deciding whether to purchase the food product ornot. In addition, it is also difficult for manufacturers to swiftly findout contents that are beneficial to advertising in so many reviews.

In addition, a current merchandise review website may also provide userswith scoring mechanism in addition to text review features, for example,a 5-star rating system with a scale from 1 to 5 stars. Nevertheless,when a controversial incident occurs, such as a restaurant servicedispute on mandatory minimum order requirement or a controversial publicfigure making sensational recommendation for a cuisine of a particularrestaurant, such a controversial incident may instead provoke opposersto the mandatory requirement or the public figure to leave a largenumber of low-score reviews that are not related to the food served bythese restaurants. The only ways nowadays to deal with such a probleminclude leaving such reviews to be handled by collaborating scoringplatforms, or temporarily suspending the review function. However, evenafter such a topical trend is over, a large number of low scores canstill stay on the review pages of a pertinent product, and lower theoverall score of the goods or service. The overall score lowering,whether taking place in a mature market that already has many goods orservices homogeneous to the product, or in an emerging market whererecognition and acceptance of such a product is still low, wouldsimilarly impact the provider of the product negatively.

Accordingly, there is still room for improvement on the afore-referencedissues, and the present disclosure presents an opinion review evaluationsystem and methods thereof that involve special, positive and negativefeature points to answer issues including, but not limited to, thosediscussed supra.

SUMMARY

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a variousopinion evaluation system including one or more computing devices thatcan be a remote computing device and/or at least one client devicecommunicable with the remote computing device. The one or more computingdevice include one or more processors and one or more storage devicesstoring computer executable code. The computer executable code, whenexecuted at the one or more processors, can: receive a piece of positivereview information related to a product and a piece of negative reviewinformation related to the product through at least one product reviewmessage or inputted at the one or more computing devices by at least oneuser; perform positive review semantics analysis on the positive reviewinformation, and perform negative review semantics analysis on thenegative review information; generate at least one positive featurepoint of the product based on the positive review semantics analysis,and generate at least one negative feature point of the product based onthe negative review semantics analysis; and generate at least onespecial feature point by merging the positive feature point and thenegative feature point based on similarity therebetween.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, cansegment text of the positive review information into semanticallymeaningful positive keywords, and text of the negative reviewinformation into semantically meaningful negative keywords, and assignat least two of the semantically meaningful positive keywords that havesemantic overlapping into the same first semantic group, and at leasttwo of the semantically meaningful negative keywords that have semanticoverlapping into the same second semantic group.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, candetermine a first semantic overlapping degree of the first semanticgroup, a second semantic overlapping degree of the second semanticgroup, a first semantic overlapping ratio of each of the at least twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup, and a second semantic overlapping ratio of each of the at leasttwo semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same secondsemantic group. The first semantic overlapping degree is any semanticoverlapping between any two semantically meaningful positive keywords inthe same first semantic group. The second semantic overlapping degree ofthe second semantic group is any semantic overlapping between any twosemantically meaningful negative keywords in the same second semanticgroup. The first semantic overlapping ratio is a ratio of any semanticoverlapping between the semantically meaningful positive keyword and anyother semantically meaningful positive keyword in the same firstsemantic group to the first semantic overlapping degree. The secondsemantic overlapping ratio is a ratio of any semantic overlappingbetween the semantically meaningful negative keyword and any othersemantically meaningful negative keyword in the same second semanticgroup to the second semantic overlapping degree.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, candefine one of the semantically meaningful positive keywords in the samefirst semantic group that has a highest first semantic overlapping ratioamong the first semantic overlapping ratios as the positive featurepoint, one of the semantically meaningful negative keywords in the samesecond semantic group that has a highest second semantic overlappingratio among the second semantic overlapping ratios as the negativefeature point, a first weighting value of the positive feature point asa sum of weighting values of the semantically meaningful positivekeywords in the same first semantic group to which the positive featurepoint belongs, and a second weighting value of the negative featurepoint as a sum of weighting values of the semantically meaningfulnegative keywords in the same second semantic group to which thenegative feature point belongs.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, can:compare the positive feature point with the negative feature point;determine whether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit existsboth in the positive feature point and the negative feature point basedon the comparison; and in response to determining at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point andthe negative feature point, define the common meaningful linguistic unitas the special feature point, and a weighting value of the specialfeature point as a sum of a first weighting value of the positivefeature point and a second weighting value of the negative featurepoint.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, cangenerate a first numeral value according to a first weighting value ofthe positive feature point and a second weighting value of the negativefeature point, and generate a second numeral value according to thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; compare the positivefeature point with the negative feature point; determine whether atleast one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positivefeature point and the negative feature point based on the comparison;determine whether the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point; in response to determiningthe common meaningful linguistic unit is the positive feature point orthe negative feature point, define the positive feature point or thenegative feature point as the special feature point, and define aweighting value of the special feature point as a sum of the firstweighting value of the positive feature point and the second weightingvalue of the negative feature point; in response to determining thecommon meaningful linguistic unit is not the positive feature point andnot the negative feature point, determine whether the first numeralvalue is greater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold, anddetermine whether the second numeral value is greater than apredetermined negative-feature threshold; in response to determining thefirst numeral value is greater than the predetermined positive-featurethreshold, define the positive feature point as the special featurepoint; in response to determining the second numeral value is greaterthan the predetermined negative-feature threshold, define the negativefeature point as the special feature point; and in response todetermining the first numeral value is smaller than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold and the second numeral value is smaller thanthe predetermined negative-feature threshold, define the commonmeaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, cangenerate a first numeral value according to a first weighting value ofthe positive feature point and a second weighting value of the negativefeature point, and generate a second numeral value according to thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; compare the positivefeature point with the negative feature point; determine whether atleast one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positivefeature point and the negative feature point based on the comparison;determine whether the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point; in response to determiningthe common meaningful linguistic unit is the positive feature point orthe negative feature point, define the positive feature point or thenegative feature point as the special feature point, and a weightingvalue of the special feature point as a sum of the first weighting valueof the positive feature point and the second weighting value of thenegative feature point; in response to determining no common meaningfullinguistic unit exists both in the positive and negative feature points,determine whether at least one first linguistic unit in the positivefeature point and at least one second linguistic unit in the negativefeature point are semantically similar linguistic units; in response todetermining the first and second linguistic units are semanticallysimilar linguistic units, designate one of the first and secondlinguistic units as the common meaningful linguistic unit, and determinewhether the first numeral value is greater than a predeterminedpositive-feature threshold and whether the second numeral value isgreater than a predetermined negative-feature threshold; in response todetermining the first numeral value is greater than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, define the positive feature point as thespecial feature point; in response to determining the second numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,define the negative feature point as the special feature point; and inresponse to determining the first numeral value is smaller than thepredetermined positive-feature threshold and the second numeral value issmaller than the predetermined negative-feature threshold, define thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a productspecial feature point generation method, which includes: receiving, byone or more first computing devices, a piece of positive reviewinformation related to a product and a piece of negative reviewinformation related to the product inputted at the one or more firstcomputing devices by at least one user or through at least one productreview message from one or more second computing devices, wherein eachof the first and second computing devices is a remote computing deviceor a client device communicable with the remote computing device;performing, by one or more semantics analysis modules of the one or morefirst computing devices, positive review semantics analysis on thepositive review information and negative review semantics analysis onthe negative review information; generating, by one or more featurepoint generation modules of one or more of the first and secondcomputing devices, at least one positive feature point of the productbased on the positive review semantics analysis and at least onenegative feature point of the product based on the negative reviewsemantics analysis; and generating, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, at least one special feature point by merging thepositive feature point and the negative feature point based onsimilarity therebetween.

In certain embodiments, the step of performing review semantics analysisincludes: segmenting, by the one or more semantics analysis modules,text of the positive review information into semantically meaningfulpositive keywords, and text of the negative review information intosemantically meaningful negative keywords; and assigning, by the one ormore semantics analysis modules, at least two of the semanticallymeaningful positive keywords that have semantic overlapping into thesame first semantic group, and at least two of the semanticallymeaningful negative keywords that have semantic overlapping into thesame second semantic group.

In certain embodiments, the step of performing review semantics analysisincludes: determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules,the first semantic overlapping degree of the first semantic group, thesecond semantic overlapping degree of the second semantic group, thefirst semantic overlapping ratio of each of the at least twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup, and the second semantic overlapping ratio of each of the at leasttwo semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same secondsemantic group.

In certain embodiments, the step of generating the positive and negativefeature points includes: defining, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, one of the semantically meaningful positive keywordsin the same first semantic group that has a highest first semanticoverlapping ratio among the first semantic overlapping ratios as thepositive feature point, one of the semantically meaningful negativekeywords in the same second semantic group that has a highest secondsemantic overlapping ratio among the second semantic overlapping ratiosas the negative feature point, a first weighting value of the positivefeature point as a sum of weighting values of the semanticallymeaningful positive keywords in the same first semantic group to whichthe positive feature point belongs, and a second weighting value of thenegative feature point as a sum of weighting values of the semanticallymeaningful negative keywords in the same second semantic group to whichthe negative feature point belongs.

In certain embodiments, the step of generating the special feature pointfurther includes: comparing, by one or more semantics analysis modulesof one or more of the first and second computing devices, the positivefeature point with the negative feature point; determining, by the oneor more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the first andsecond computing devices, whether at least one common meaningfullinguistic unit exists both in the positive and negative feature pointsbased on the comparison; and in response to determining at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive andnegative feature points, defining, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, the common meaningful linguistic unit as the specialfeature point, and a weighting value of the special feature point as asum of a first weighting value of the positive feature point and asecond weighting value of the negative feature point.

In certain embodiments, the step of generating the special feature pointfurther includes: generating, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, a first numeral value according to a first weightingvalue of the positive feature point and a second weighting value of thenegative feature point, and a second numeral value according to thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; comparing, by one or moresemantics analysis modules of one or more of the first and secondcomputing devices, the positive feature point with the negative featurepoint; determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules of oneor more of the first and second computing devices, whether at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive andnegative feature points based on the comparison; determining, by the oneor more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the first andsecond computing devices, whether the common meaningful linguistic unitis the positive feature point or the negative feature point; in responseto determining the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point, defining, by the one ormore feature point generation modules, the positive feature point or thenegative feature point as the special feature point, and a weightingvalue of the special feature point as a sum of the first weighting valueof the positive feature point and the second weighting value of thenegative feature point; in response to determining the common meaningfullinguistic unit is not the positive feature point and not the negativefeature point, determining, by the one or more feature point generationmodules, whether the first numeral value is greater than a predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, and whether the second numeral value isgreater than a predetermined negative-feature threshold; in response todetermining the first numeral value is greater than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, defining, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, the positive feature point as the special featurepoint; in response to determining the second numeral value is greaterthan the predetermined negative-feature threshold, defining, by the oneor more feature point generation modules, the negative feature point asthe special feature point; and in response to determining the firstnumeral value is smaller than the predetermined positive-featurethreshold and the second numeral value is smaller than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, defining, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, the common meaningful linguistic unit as the specialfeature point.

In certain embodiments, the step of generating the special feature pointincludes: generating, by the one or more feature point generationmodules, a first numeral value according to a first weighting value ofthe positive feature point and a second weighting value of the negativefeature point, and a second numeral value according to the firstweighting value of the positive feature point and the second weightingvalue of the negative feature point; comparing, by one or more semanticsanalysis modules of one or more of the first and second computingdevices, the positive feature point with the negative feature point;determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices, whether at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive andnegative feature points based on the comparison; determining, by the oneor more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the first andsecond computing devices, whether the common meaningful linguistic unitis the positive feature point or the negative feature point; in responseto determining the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point, defining, by the one ormore feature point generation modules, the positive feature point or thenegative feature point as the special feature point, and a weightingvalue of the special feature point as a sum of the first weighting valueof the positive feature point and the second weighting value of thenegative feature point; in response to determining no common meaningfullinguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point and thenegative feature point, determining, by the one or more semanticsanalysis modules of one or more of the first and second computingdevices, whether at least one first linguistic unit in the positivefeature point and at least one second linguistic unit in the negativefeature point are semantically similar linguistic units; in response todetermining the first and second linguistic units are semanticallysimilar linguistic units, designating, by the one or more semanticsanalysis modules of one or more of the first and second computingdevices, one of the first and second linguistic units as the commonmeaningful linguistic unit, and determining, by the one or more featurepoint generation modules, whether the first numeral value is greaterthan a predetermined positive-feature threshold and whether the secondnumeral value is greater than a predetermined negative-featurethreshold; in response to determining the first numeral value is greaterthan the predetermined positive-feature threshold, defining, by the oneor more feature point generation modules, the positive feature point asthe special feature point; in response to determining the second numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, thenegative feature point as the special feature point; and in response todetermining the first numeral value is smaller than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold and the second numeral value is smaller thanthe predetermined negative-feature threshold, defining, by the one ormore feature point generation modules, the common meaningful linguisticunit as the special feature point.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to anon-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executablecode. The computer executable code, when executed at one or moreprocessors of one or more of a remote computing device and at least oneclient device communicable with the remote computing device, can receivea piece of positive review information related to a product and a pieceof negative review information related to the product through at leastone product review message or inputted at the one or more of the remotecomputing device and the at least one client device by at least oneuser; perform positive review semantics analysis on the positive reviewinformation, and negative review semantics analysis on the negativereview information; generate at least one positive feature point of theproduct based on the positive review semantics analysis, and at leastone negative feature point of the product based on the negative reviewsemantics analysis; and generate at least one special feature point bymerging the positive and negative feature points based on similaritytherebetween.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code, when executed atthe one or more processors, can segment text of the positive reviewinformation into semantically meaningful positive keywords, and text ofthe negative review information into semantically meaningful negativekeywords; and assign at least two of the semantically meaningfulpositive keywords that have semantic overlapping into the same firstsemantic group, and at least two of the semantically meaningful negativekeywords that have semantic overlapping into the same second semanticgroup.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code, when executed atthe one or more processors, can determine the first semantic overlappingdegree of the first semantic group, the second semantic overlappingdegree of the second semantic group, the first semantic overlappingratio of each of the at least two semantically meaningful positivekeywords in the same first semantic group, and the second semanticoverlapping ratio of each of the at least two semantically meaningfulnegative keywords in the same second semantic group.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code, when executed atthe one or more processors, can define one of the semanticallymeaningful positive keywords in the same first semantic group that has ahighest first semantic overlapping ratio among the first semanticoverlapping ratios as the positive feature point, one of thesemantically meaningful negative keywords in the same second semanticgroup that has a highest second semantic overlapping ratio among thesecond semantic overlapping ratios as the negative feature point, thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point as a sum ofweighting values of the semantically meaningful positive keywords in thesame first semantic group to which the positive feature point belongs,and the second weighting value of the negative feature point as a sum ofweighting values of the semantically meaningful negative keywords in thesame second semantic group to which the negative feature point belongs.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code, when executed atthe one or more processors, can compare the positive feature point withthe negative feature point; determine whether at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive and negativefeature points based on the comparison; and in response to determiningat least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in thepositive and negative feature points, define the common meaningfullinguistic unit as the special feature point, and a weighting value ofthe special feature point as a sum of a first weighting value of thepositive feature point and a second weighting value of the negativefeature point.

In certain embodiments, the computer executable code, when executed atthe one or more processors, can generate a first numeral value accordingto a first weighting value of the positive feature point and a secondweighting value of the negative feature point, and a second numeralvalue according to the first weighting value of the positive featurepoint and the second weighting value of the negative feature point;compare the positive feature point with the negative feature point;determine whether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit existsboth in the positive and negative feature points based on thecomparison; determine whether the common meaningful linguistic unit isthe positive feature point or the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point, define the positive featurepoint or the negative feature point as the special feature point, and aweighting value of the special feature point as a sum of the firstweighting value of the positive feature point and the second weightingvalue of the negative feature point; in response to determining thecommon meaningful linguistic unit is not a positive feature point andnot a negative feature point, determine whether the first numeral valueis greater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold, and whetherthe second numeral value is greater than a predeterminednegative-feature threshold; in response to determining the first numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined positive-feature threshold,define the positive feature point as the special feature point; inresponse to determining the second numeral value is greater than thepredetermined negative-feature threshold, define the negative featurepoint as the special feature point; and in response to determining thefirst numeral value is smaller than the predetermined positive-featurethreshold and the second numeral value is smaller than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, define the common meaningful linguistic unitas the special feature point.

This and other aspects of the present disclosure will become apparentfrom the following description of the embodiment taken in conjunctionwith the following drawings and their captions, although variations andmodifications therein may be affected without departing from the spiritand scope of the novel concepts of the disclosure.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a various opinion evaluation systemaccording to the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a remote computing device according to thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing generation of positive, negativeand special feature points based on positive and negative keywords bythe special feature generation algorithm (SFG ALG) according to thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship among positive,negative and special features according to the present disclosure.

FIGS. 5 and 6 are schematic diagrams of review pages on a product reviewwebsite according to the present disclosure.

FIGS. 7A and 7B are schematic diagrams showing positive and negative keyarrays and keywords generated from review titles and bodies according tothe present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the processes of special feature pointgeneration according to the present disclosure.

FIGS. 9A and 9B are schematic diagrams showing the relationship amongpositive, negative and special keywords and feature points and positiveand negative reviews according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the merge of keywords to generatea feature point according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing the merge of feature points togenerate a special feature points according to the present disclosure.

FIGS. 12A-12C are schematic diagrams of exemplary merged positive,negative and special feature points in the Pros, Cons and SpecialFeature (SF) groups according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a product main page on the productreview website according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram showing determination of a specialfeature point based on a balance curve algorithm according to thepresent disclosure.

FIGS. 15-16D are flowcharts of special feature point generationaccording to the present disclosure.

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The present disclosure is more particularly described in the followingexamples that are intended as illustrative only since numerousmodifications and variations therein will be apparent to those skilledin the art. Like numbers in the drawings indicate like componentsthroughout the views. As used in the description herein and throughoutthe claims that follow, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise,the meaning of “a”, “an”, and “the” includes plural reference, and themeaning of “in” includes “in” and “on”. The meaning of the term “one ormore” includes singular reference and plural reference, for example,being used to refer to involvement of a single item/component/part andof a plurality of items/components/parts, notwithstanding the term isused with a singular or plural noun or a singular or plural verb. Titlesor subtitles can be used herein for the convenience of a reader, whichshall have no influence on the scope of the present disclosure. Theterms used herein generally have their ordinary meanings in the art. Inthe case of conflict, the present document, including any definitionsgiven herein, will prevail. The same thing can be expressed in more thanone way. Alternative language and synonyms can be used for any term(s)discussed herein, and no special significance is to be placed uponwhether a term is elaborated or discussed herein. A recital of one ormore synonyms does not exclude the use of other synonyms. The use ofexamples anywhere in this specification including examples of any termsis illustrative only, and in no way limits the scope and meaning of thepresent disclosure or of any exemplified term. Likewise, the presentdisclosure is not limited to various embodiments given herein. Numberingterms such as “first”, “second” or “third” can be used to describevarious items, components, parts or the like, which are fordistinguishing one item/component/part from another one only, and arenot intended to, nor should be construed to impose any substantivelimitations on the items, components, parts or the like, or be relevantto the sequence in which the items/components/parts are to be presented,placed, assembled or disposed in practical application.

As used herein, the term “module” generally refers to a self-containedor non-self-contained functional component which generates data or anyother sort of output, based on data or any other sort of input receivedor retrieved by the module, to perform certain specific tasks, and canbroadly be, partly or wholly, or included in, at least one softwarecomponent, at least one hardware component, and/or at least one firmwarecomponent, or any combination of the above. A module may include one orplural software applications and/or programs executable by at least oneprocessor of a computing device, and when executed by said processor,cause the computing device to perform specific and/or general tasks. Amodule may be included in one or plural software applications and/orprograms, and/or be part of, or include, one or more hardware componentsthat provide certain desired functionality, such as at least oneelectronic circuit, at least one combinational logic circuit, at leastone field programmable gate array (FPGA), at least one ApplicationSpecific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), at least one non-volatile orvolatile memory storing code executable by said processor, and/or atleast one processor configured to execute code, or any combination ofthe above. A module can be included in or constitute, solely orcollectively with other module(s) and/or component(s) referred supra, aspecial-purpose computing device configured to perform certain specifictasks or a general-purpose computing device. Modules described ordepicted separately in the present disclosure may be portions of thesame module, the same software application and/or program, the samehardware and/or firmware component, and/or any combination of the above,and a module may include a plurality of modules that can otherwise bedescribed or depicted separately while still falling within the scope ofthe present disclosure.

As used herein, the term “code” generally refers to a computer-readablecommunication form that serves to mediate communication with a computerand implement certain desired functionality through the computer. Codecan be programs, instructions, microcode, routines, functions,procedures, classes, objects, algorithms, stored data, or anycombination of the above, etc. Code can be implemented as software. Inaddition, code can, partly or wholly, constitute, or be included in, oneor more modules that can be stored on one or more storage media andexecuted by one or more processors. Code can include computer programshaving instructions executable by a processor and being stored on anon-transitory tangible computer readable medium.

As used herein, the term “computer-readable medium” generally refers toany available form of medium that can store or carry computer-executableinstructions or data structures. The computer-readable medium can beaccessible by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, and bedownloadable through communication networks. A non-transitory tangiblecomputer readable medium may exemplarily be or include one or more flashmemory storages, such as one or more solid-state drives (SSDs), one ormore NAND flashes, etc.; one or more read-only memories (ROMs), such asone or more erasable programmable ROMs (EPROM)s, one or moreelectrically erasable programmable ROMs (EEPROMs), etc.; one or moreferroelectric random-access memories (RAMs); one or more hard diskdrives (HDDs); one or more memory cards; one or more USB drives; caches;one or more floppy disks; one or more optical disk drives; a portion ora combination of the above; or any other suitable data storage devicethat provides the described functionality.

As used herein, the term “semantically meaningful keyword” generallyrefers to a keyword that has semantic meaning either by the keyworditself or in view of the context of the text or non-text that containsthe keyword, and may be a semantically meaningful positive keyword(hereinafter, “positive keyword”) or semantically meaningful negativekeyword (hereinafter, “negative keyword”). A keyword generally refers toa linguistic unit whose composition may include one or more semanticunits, one or more lexical units, one or more words, one or morecharacters, one or more compound words, one or more compound characters,one or more complex words, one or more pictograms, one or more simpleideograms, one or more compound ideographs, one or more rebuscharacters, one or more phono-semantic compound characters, one or moresentences or a fraction thereof, one or more clause or a fractionthereof, one or more idioms, one or more phrases, one or more sayings,and/or one or more collocations, and/or any combination of the above,etc.

As used herein, the term “common meaningful linguistic unit” generallyrefers to a linguistic unit that has semantic meaning and exists both inat least one positive feature point and at least one negative featurepoint. A common meaningful linguistic unit may be a part, or theentirety, of a positive or negative feature point, and/or a part, or theentirety, of a semantically meaningful keyword.

As used herein, the term “semantically similar linguistic units”generally refer to linguistic units in feature points that have semanticsimilarity, but are not entirely the same in their character compositionor semantic meaning. Semantically similar linguistic units mayexemplarily be hypernyms, hyponyms, synonyms, etc. to each other.

Computer components applied in the systems, apparatuses, methods and/orarticles according to the present disclosure can include, and/or beimplemented as, software, hardware and/or firmware components. Suchsystems, apparatuses, methods and/or articles can generally beimplemented as and/or in a special-purpose or general-purpose computercomprising a variety of software and/or hardware components and/ormodules that are detailed in the present disclosure, and can beimplemented by one or more computer programs and be executed by one ormore processors.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a variousopinion evaluation system that outputs at least one special featurepoint according to the review content inputted by at least one user on aproduct review website. FIG. 1 schematically depicts an exemplaryvarious opinion evaluation system according to certain embodiments ofthe present disclosure. The various opinion evaluation system includesone or more computing devices that each can either be a remote computingdevice 1 or a client device 2 that is connectable to the remotecomputing device 1. In certain embodiments, the various opinionevaluation system is connectable to a plurality of client devices,and/or includes a plurality of client devices interconnectable with eachother, through one or more networks. In certain embodiments, the remotecomputing device 1 includes pieces of computer hardware and/or computersoftware or programs that can work individually as part of, orcollectively as, a web server that communicates and interchanges dataand messages with at least one client device 2 through a network 3. Theremote computing device 1 can store, maintain, and/or load computersoftware or programs that render the remote computing device 1 a webserver for a product review website 4, for example, computer software orprograms which enable communication between the remote computing device1 and the client device(s) 2 under application layer protocols such asthe Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and via Uniform ResourceIdentifiers (URIs) such as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs); componentfiles of the product review website 4, such as image files, multi-mediafiles, HTML documents, style sheets such as cascading style sheets,JavaScript and/or other programming language files (for non-limitingexample, files developed through Flutter, NativeScript, React Native,Xamarin, Titanium SDK and/or any other application development kit orframework), etc.; and a user data collection 181 storing the informationof the users of the product review website 4, and a product datacollection 182 storing the information of the product(s) available onthe product review website 4. However, the present disclosure is notlimited thereto. In certain embodiments, the component files and/or thedata collection(s) of the product review website 4 can be storedindependent from and external to the remote computing device 1, and isaccessible and retrievable by the remote computing device 1. In certainembodiments, the remote computing device 1 may be configured to allow auser to access therethrough the webpages, and content thereof, of theproduct review website 4, and the webpages, and content thereof, of theproduct review website 4 can be displayed to the user through the remotecomputing device 1. The remote computing device 1 may be configured toallow a user to input information thereto, such as through aninput/output (I/O) interface, and therefore to the product reviewwebsite 4, and transmit the information inputted by the user to theproduct review website 4. The remote computing device 1 can be installedwith at least one web browser application program such as Google Chrome,Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. or anapplication program that allows a user to access and, if membershipmandated service mechanism is in place, log in the product reviewwebsite 4 to read, write and browse through the product reviews and/oraccess any other features, functions and services of the product reviewwebsite 4, and displays the webpage(s) and content or file(s) associatedtherewith that is requested or inputted by the user through theapplication program. In certain embodiments, a remote computing device 1may be a blade server, a rack server, a tower server, a laptop, adesktop computer, a tablet computer, a smartphone, etc. In certainembodiments, the network 3 may be a wired or wireless network. Variousexamples of the network 3 may include, but is not limited to, theInternet, a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), anInternet area network (IAN), etc. In certain embodiments, the variousopinion evaluation system can include at least one client device 2, orin addition to the remote computing device 1, further include at leastone client device 2, the network 3, and/or the product review website 4.

The product review website 4 includes a series of web pages that, alongwith the content, documents and/or files associated therewith andprovided thereby, provide users with functions and abilities of leaving,reading, browsing through, and/or exchanging reviews on products. Aproduct is defined in the present disclosure as a piece of tangiblegoods or an intangible service. In certain embodiments, the productreview website 4 displays the feature point(s) of the product(s) listedthereon by the users, each of the reviews can be assigned with andrelated to at least one feature point related to the content of thereview and, partly or wholly, the same as or different from the featurepoint(s) assigned with and related to another review. Since a user ofthe product review website 4 may leave as well as read reviews onparticular goods or services on the product review website 4, such auser acts both as a reader of and a writer for the product reviewwebsite 4.

The client device 2 is a computing device through which a user canaccess the webpages, and content thereof, of the product review website4 and the webpages, and content thereof, of the product review website 4can be displayed to the user. The client device 2 is configured to allowa user to input information thereto, such as through an input/output(I/O) interface, connect to the remote computing device 1 and thereforeto the product review website 4, and transmit the information inputtedby the user to the product review web site 4 and the remote computingdevice 1. The client device 2 can be installed with at least one webbrowser application program such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge,Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. or an applicationprogram that allows a user to access and, if membership mandated servicemechanism is in place, log in the product review website 4 to read,write and browse through the product reviews and/or access any otherfeatures, functions and services of the product review website 4, anddisplays the webpage(s) and content or file(s) associated therewith thatis requested or inputted by the user through the application program. Incertain embodiments, multiple client devices 2 can be communicativelyinterconnected with the remote computing device 1 and/or with oneanother at the same time or different times, and the same or differentusers can read, write and browse through reviews at the same time ordifferent times on multiple client devices 2. In certain embodiments, aclient device 2 may be a laptop, desktop or tablet computer, smartphone,etc.

FIG. 2 schematically depicts an exemplary remote computing device 1according to certain embodiments of the present disclosure. The remotecomputing device 1 includes a processor 12, a storage device 14, andother hardware and software components, and is configured to performtasks including: receiving from a client device 2 information inputtedby the user; processing, and generating at least one feature point from,the received information; maintaining and/or updating the content of theproduct review website 4 based on the information inputted by the userand the generated feature point(s); sending the maintained or updatedcontent to the client device 2, for example, information that isdisplayable on a web browser in a form of a webpage or a portion thereofthat shows updated content according to the inputted information; uponreceiving a request by the user for information on the product reviewwebsite 4 from the client device 2, such as a particular webpage,document or file, sending the requested information to the client device2; receiving one or more log-in requests and user identificationinformation by one or more users from one or more client devices 2 atthe same time or different times; authenticating the identit(ies) of therequesting user(s) at the same time or different times; upon determiningthe identit(ies) of the requesting user(s) is authenticated, allowingthe log-in request(s); sending information that is of an authorizationlevel that is requested by the authenticated user(s) upon a request bythe authenticated user(s); storing information sent by the authenticateduser from the client device 2 in the datastore(s) of the remotecomputing device 1; and upon determining the identit(ies) of therequesting user(s) is not authenticated, denying the log-in request(s)and not sending information that is of an authorization level to theunauthenticated user. However, the present disclosure is not limitedthereto. In certain embodiments, part of the tasks referred supra, suchas identity authentication, can be performed by another computing devicethat is independent from, external to, and connectable and communicablewith the remote computing device 1. Further, the remote computing device1 may also include other hardware components and software components(not shown) to perform afore-mentioned or other tasks. Various examplesthereof may include, but not limited to, interfaces, buses, memories,peripheral devices, Input/Output (I/O) modules, which can serve toreceive input or instruction from a user of the remote computing device1, and/or send and receive messages to and from, if any, other computingdevices of the various opinion evaluation system, such as at least oneclient device 2, etc.

The processor 12 is configured to interpret and/or executecomputer-readable instructions, and process various tasks and operationof the remote computing device 1. In certain embodiments, the processor12 may be, but not limited to, a microprocessor, a microcontroller, acentral processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), anASIC, a FPGA, a portion or a combination of one or more of the above, orany other suitable hardware component that provides the describedfunctionality. The processor 12 can receive and executecomputer-readable instructions from the various module(s) of the remotecomputing device 1. In certain embodiments, multiple processors 12 areincluded in and process the tasks and operation of the remote computingdevice 1, and the number of the processor(s) may vary to suit thepractical needs of the remote computing device 1. The storage device 14is a data storage device or media configured to store data and/orcomputer-readable instructions for executing, at the processor 12, thefunctionality of the module(s) and/or application(s) of the remotecomputing device 1. In certain embodiments, a feature point generationmodule 16, a semantics analysis module 17, at least one datastore 18,and/or other application(s), module(s) and/or datastore(s) of the remotecomputing device 1 can be stored in and/or loaded by the storage device14, and be accessed, retrieved and/or executed by the processor 12. Incertain embodiments, the storage device 14 may include a non-volatilememory including at least one flash memory storage, such as a SSD, aNAND flash, etc., at least one ROM, such as an EPROM, an EEPROM, etc.,at least one ferroelectric RAM, at least one HDD, at least one memorycard, at least one USB drive, caches, at least one floppy disk, at leastone optical disk drives, a portion or a combination of one or more ofthe above, or any other suitable data storage device that provides thedescribed functionality. In certain embodiments, the remote computingdevice 1 may have a plurality of storage devices 14 whose types or formsare identical or different partly or entirely. In certain embodiments,the storage device 14 includes one or more volatile memories, such asone or more RAMs, and/or a volatile memory array, and the number of thevolatile memories may vary to suit the practical needs of the remotecomputing device 1.

The remote computing device 1 can be stored with user data collection181 and product data collection 182 of the product review website 4 inthe same or different datastores 18. The data collections 181, 182 canbe structured as, and/or retrieved as in, the same or differentdatabases; The remote computing device 1 is configured to retrieve datafrom the user data collection 181 and the product data collection 182;generate and/or update the component files of, and therefore the contentdisplayed on, the product review website 4 according to the retrieveddata from the user data collection 181 and the product data collection182; and update the user data collection 181 and the product datacollection 182 with information inputted by a user in and sent from aclient device 2 or in the remote computing device 1. The user datacollection 181 includes multiple pieces of user data. Each piece of userdata includes a user identification code and user personal informationassociated with the user identification code, such as user name,nickname, gender, address, shopping record, etc. The user identificationcode uniquely corresponds to a particular user of the product reviewwebsite 4, and represents the identity of the user that corresponds tothe piece of user data. That is, the user identification codes of themultiple pieces of user data are different from each other. In certainembodiments, the user identification codes may be based on user account,government-assigned identity number, machine code, mobile phone number,and/or international mobile equipment identity (IMEI), etc., or begenerated by the remote computing device 1 through a random numbergenerator or other means. The product data collection 182 includesmultiple pieces of product data. Each piece of product data correspondsto a piece of goods or a service, and includes product basic informationsuch as the name, price, production date, launch date, etc. of the goodsor service, positive review information and negative review informationof the goods or service, keyword information and feature pointinformation of the goods or service. The positive review information caninclude review content inputted by the user(s) of the product reviewwebsite 4 in the positive review field(s) and/or section(s) thereof thatcorresponds to the goods or service, such as that reflecting thepositive mental impressions and positive opinions on, and written by theusers of, such a piece of goods or a service, and in certain embodimentsincludes, but not limited to, respective review titles, review bodiesand other review information of positive reviews, and the useridentities, that is, the author identities, of the positive reviews. Thenegative review information can include review content inputted by theuser(s) of the product review website 4 in the negative review field(s)and/or section(s) thereof that corresponds to the goods or service, suchas that reflecting the negative mental impressions and negative opinionson, and are written by the users of, such a piece of goods or a service,and in certain embodiments includes, but not limited to, respectivereview titles, review bodies and other review information of thenegative reviews, and the user identities, that is, the authoridentities, of the negative reviews. The keyword information can includethe semantically meaningful keyword(s) corresponding to the goods orservice that is generated through semantics analysis according to thepositive review information and/or negative review information, reviewidentifier information indicating the identit(ies) of the review(s)labeled with the semantically meaningful keyword(s), and theattribute(s) of the semantically meaningful keyword(s) being positive ornegative in the reviews labeled with the semantically meaningfulkeyword(s). The feature point information can include the featurepoint(s) corresponding to the goods or service that is generated, andcan be assigned with an attribute being positive, negative or special,by the remote computing device 1 according to the keyword information;and review identifier information indicating the identities of thereviews labeled with the feature point(s). In certain embodiments, anattribute of a feature point that is labeled as special is generated inresponse to the remote computing device 1 or a client device 2determining a feature point is a special feature point. In certainembodiments, the user data collection 181, the product data collection182 and the component files are stored in the same remote computingdevice 1 that includes the hardware and software components that renderthe remote computing device 1 a web server for the product reviewwebsite 4. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Incertain embodiments, at least one of the user data collection 181, theproduct data collection 182, and the web server for the product reviewwebsite is stored in a device different from the remote computing device1. In certain embodiments, the user and product data collection 181, 182are integrated into one data collection and function as a singledatabase.

In certain embodiments, the storage device of at least one client device2 can store data and/or computer-readable instructions for executing, ata processor of the client device 2, the functionality of the module(s)and/or application(s) of the client device 2, for example, storing, allor part of, a feature point generation module, a semantics analysismodule, and at least one datastore that can include at least one of userdata collection and product data collection. The feature pointgeneration module, semantics analysis module, datastore, user datacollection and product data collection of the client device 2 can be thesame respectively as, and respectively perform the same tasks and/orprovide the same functions as that by the feature point generationmodule 16, semantics analysis module 17, datastore 18, user datacollection 181 and product data collection 182 of the remote computingdevice 1. For example, the feature point generation module and semanticsanalysis module of a client device 2 can respectively perform the sametasks of the feature point generation module 16 and semantics analysismodule 17 of the remote computing device 1, including, but not limitedto, positive and negative keywords generation, keyword merge, positiveand negative feature point generation, feature point merge, specialfeature point generation, etc. In certain embodiments, the tasks orfunctions described in the present disclosure, supra and infra, as beingperformed by or within the capacity of the feature point generationmodule 16 and semantics analysis module 17 of the remote computingdevice 1 respectively fall within the scopes of tasks and capability ofthe feature point generation module and semantics analysis module of aclient device 2. Accordingly, the feature point generation module andthe semantics analysis module of a client device 2 can share andperform, part or all of, the tasks of the feature point generationmodule 16 and semantics analysis module 17 of the remote computingdevice 1, and the remote computing device 1 can receive the keyword(s),feature point(s) and/or other data generated by a client device 2through the network 3 to update the content of the product reviewwebsite 4 and the datastore 18. In certain embodiments, at least one ofthe client devices 2 has a feature point generation module and asemantics analysis module, and the feature point generation module 16and semantics analysis module 17 are omitted from the remote computingdevice 1. In certain embodiments, each of at least two client devices 2has at least one of the feature point generation module and a semanticsanalysis module, and based on the feature point generation module(s) andthe semantics analysis module(s), the at least two client devices 2 cancollectively perform part or all of the tasks referred to supraperformed by the remote computing device 1 by communicating with andexchanging data between each other through a network that may beindependent from or be the network 3. For example, one of the clientdevices 2 can receive a product review message from another clientdevice 2, and performs tasks the same as that by the remote computingdevice 1, including, but not limited to, retrieving data and updatingits datastore based on the product review message, performing asubsequent procedure in response to a procedure performed by anotherclient device 2, etc., including part or all of the procedures referredto infra in the present disclosure. A client device 2 may also includeother hardware components and software components (not shown) to performafore-mentioned or other tasks. Various examples thereof may include,but not limited to, interfaces, buses, memories, peripheral devices,Input/Output (I/O) modules, which can serve to receive input orinstruction from a user of the client device 2, and/or send and receivemessages to and from, if any, other computing devices of the variousopinion evaluation system, such as the remote computing device 1, etc.

Referring to FIG. 3, the various opinion evaluation system according tothe present disclosure can, based on positive and negative keywordsgenerated from the reviews of a piece of goods or service on the productreview website 4, generate feature points of the goods or service, inparticular, at least one special feature point, through a series offunctions and/or algorithms detailed infra that may be referred tocollectively in the present disclosure as the SFG ALG. Referring to FIG.4, a special feature point of a product according to the presentdisclosure can be defined as a product feature that may be considered bycertain users to be positive or advantageous, and at the same time alsobe considered by certain other users as negative or disadvantageous. Forexample, a first user may, based on his or her inner opinion, leave onthe product review website 4 a positive review on a particular productthat encompasses a first group of features P of the product, and asecond user may, also based on his or her inner opinion, leave on theproduct review website 4 a negative review on the particular productthat encompasses a second group of features N of the product. The firstgroup and second group of features may intersect, that is, overlap, eachother wholly or partly by an intersection portion, such as the portion Iexemplarily shown in FIG. 4. Such an intersection portion I of theproduct features, that is, the intersection of the first and secondgroups P, N of the product features, in numerous instances, mayencompass the product feature(s) that reflects more about, and is moresubjected to, the subjective interpretation of the users toward thegoods or service, and less about the objective properties thereof, andis accordingly particularly identified as the special feature point(s)of the goods or service in the present disclosure. In certainembodiments, a special feature point may be a semantically meaningfulkeyword or a meaningful linguistic unit identified with an attributelabeled as positive in a first review, and with an attribute labeled asnegative in a second review, that is, a common semantically meaningfulkeyword or common meaningful linguistic unit of the first and secondreviews.

For example, assuming that an exemplary controversial public figure isnamed John Smith; positive reviews, and favorable features containedtherein, of a restaurant on the product review website 4 from certainusers include “great soup”, “tasty meat”, “recommended by John Smith”,etc.; and negative reviews, and unfavorable features contained therein,of the restaurant on the product review website 4 include “missinginvoices”, “frequent waiting in a long line”, “pricy”, “recommended byJohn Smith”. Since John Smith is controversial, certain users may treatrecommendation by John Smith as a positive feature, while certain otherusers may treat such recommendation as a negative feature. Beingpresented both in the positive and negative reviews and features, thefeature “recommended by John Smith” will be defined as a special featurepoint of the restaurant by the various opinion evaluation systemaccording to the present disclosure, for example, by the remotecomputing device 1 and/or at least one client device 2. For anotherexample, positive reviews, and favorable features contained therein, ofa smartphone on the product review website 4 from certain users mayinclude “photos taken are lovely”, “strong endurability”, “convenientfacial recognition system”, etc.; and negative reviews, and unfavorablefeatures contained therein, of the smartphone on the product reviewwebsite 4 may include “pricy”, “LCD display”, “no multi-camera”,“difficult facial recognition system”, etc. Being presented both in thepositive and negative reviews and features, the feature “facialrecognition system” will be defined as a special feature point of thesmartphone by the various opinion evaluation system according to thepresent disclosure.

Identifying special feature points helps identify user opinions of amore subjective character or product features that are more prone to besubjected to subjective interpretation from the opinions that are lesssubjective, that is, more objective, or from product features less proneto be subjected to subjective interpretation or of a more objectivecharacter. Take a food product for example, assuming that a feature“spicy” may be considered as positive or advantageous by users who favorspicy food, and negative or disadvantageous by users who do not, such afeature can be determined by the various opinion evaluation system, forexample, by the remote computing device 1 and/or at least one clientdevice 2, as a special feature, and therefore recognized as a moresubjective feature that reflects also the subjective opinion of theusers instead of mere objective factual features, based on itsappearance both in the positive and negative reviews according to thepresent disclosure. In contrast, assuming that a feature “lots offilling” of the food product appears only in the positive reviews, sucha feature is not determined by the various opinion evaluation system asa special feature, and is therefore recognized as a more objectivefeature whose objectiveness is thereby also recognized as well-known toand approved by the consumers according to the present disclosure.Accordingly, for a user of the various opinion review system accordingto the present disclosure, his or her effort and time in browsingthrough and reading reviews related more to objective factual productfeatures can be lessened, and can be focused on the special featuresthat are controversial of a piece of goods or service, such as theafore-referenced exemplary “spicy” feature of the food product.

Further, identifying special feature points helps avoid dilution of theweighting value, statistical or non-statistical, of a special featurepoint of a more subjective character, that is, from being decreased, ascan be caused by its dispersion both in the positive or Pros reviews andin the negative or Cons reviews. For example, a weighting of a featurepoint in the positive or Pros aspect may be based on only sixtyoccurrences in the positive or Pros reviews, and a weighting of thefeature point in the negative or Cons aspect may be based on only fortyoccurrences in the negative or Cons reviews, while the weighting of thefeature point that really shows the impact of the feature point shouldbe based on a total of one hundred of occurrences in all reviews, thatis, the sum of the sixty occurrences in the positive or Pros reviews andforty occurrences in the negative or Cons reviews.

Further, identifying special feature points also help raise brand orproduct awareness and facilitate customer group segregation. First, asreferred supra, a special feature point represents an intersection ofpositive and negative features where consumers' product perceptiondiffers and collides, that is, where conflict points lay and topics canbe created. For a relatively mature goods or service market, products inthe same category have high homogeneity, and it is more difficult for aproduct provider, among its peers that sell similar goods or offerssimilar services, to win the favor of consumers. For a market where aparticular piece of goods or service is not yet popularized, consumershave low awareness of or low concern for such a product. It is thereforeclear that topicality is required for a product to either make abreakthrough in a mature market or have higher awareness in an emergingmarket. Once the product acquires its topicality, popularity ensues,which increases the trading volume of the product. Accordingly, byidentifying the special feature point(s) of a product, topical conflictpoints, that is, the intersection of the positive and negative reviewsof the product, can be located accordingly, which can increase the clickthrough rate of the product, serve as a selling point for marketing, anddiscover the keyword(s) that can ignite a trending earlier. Morespecifically, referring again to the restaurant example supra, theexemplary special feature point “recommended by John Smith” of therestaurant would have strong connection to the supposingly contradictorysocial cognition of the exemplary controversial public figure, and isaccordingly different from features that may ordinarily be comparativelyquantitative, such as price, food freshness, etc. Therefore, such aspecial feature point, when applied in marketing, has a good chance todetonate discussions and social trends for the restaurant. On the otherhand, referring again to the smartphone example supra, the exemplaryspecial feature point “facial recognition system” represents arelatively new technique feature compared to other products in the samecategory, and may serve as a selling point of the exemplary smartphonewhen applied in marketing. As a result of applying the special featurepoint(s) generated by the various opinion evaluation system according tothe present disclosure in goods or service marketing and in creatingtopicality for the product associated therewith, the sight of thespecial feature point(s) on the product review website 4 that isgenerated based on the identified special feature(s), and of a moresubjective character, can increase consumers' willingness to click onand read the product reviews. Should a consumer be discontent with theexisting review(s) of a piece of goods or a service on the productreview website 4, he or she may joint in as a new user/author of a newreview of the product, and a user of an existing review of the productmay edit the content of the review, or create a follow-on review inreply to the new review by the new user, therefore forming a positivefeedback eco-chain/ecosystem that attracts new users to the variousopinion evaluation system according to the present disclosure.Accordingly, the special feature point(s) also facilitates the expansionand enrichment of the content of the reviews of the products on theproduct review website 4, and helps marketing professionals to moreprecisely identify the connection point(s) between the user(s) havingpositive opinions on a product and the user(s) having negative opinionson the product.

Second, in a nowadays diverse society, it is common for people to havedifferent, even opposite, preferences and beliefs about political andsocial issues, and even about the ways of providing, or quality or thecontent of, a product. Nevertheless, a product provider may not becapable of handling every dispute or conflict properly or in time. Sincea special feature point according to certain embodiments of the presentdisclosure may generally refer to the intersection of the positive andnegative product features based on user positive opinions and negativeopinions, a user can swiftly grasp the gist of a product beforehandthrough the special feature point(s), that is, the overlapping portionof product features based on the positive and negative opinions on theproduct. For example, the exemplary special feature point “facialrecognition system” may serve to help consumers not familiar with theexemplary smartphone to grasp the specialties of the product featuresthereof, and therefore to decide whether to endorse and/or pay for theproduct based on their preferences, which lowers the likelihood ofdisputes and conflicts.

In certain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 is configured tolog a user in the product review website 4; send information related tothe content of the product review website 4 that is displayable througha browser application program on a client device 2 or the remotecomputing device 1 operated by the user in response to receiving arequest by the user sent from the client device 2 or at the remotecomputing device 1, such that, for example, the user can browse throughthe webpages and reviews of the product review website 4; and receivefrom the client device 2 or at the remote computing device 1, and updatethe user data collection 181 and the product data collection 182 with,the information inputted by the user. The product review website 4includes at least one review page configured to guide and allow a userto input, through a client device 2 or the remote computing device 1,product information for a piece of goods or a service, such as productname, price, purchase location, purchase date, product image or photo,etc.; user decisions on product attributes presented, for example, in atrue-or-false, multiple-choice or other layouts, for example, whetherrecommendable to a friend; and detailed reviews and other product reviewinformation. In certain embodiments, the review page has positive reviewfields and negative review fields in which a user may fill incorresponding review contents based on his or her opinions on the goodsor service. The review fields may include at least one of at least onereview title field for being inputted with the title of a review, atleast one review abstract field for being inputted with the abstract ofa more detailed content of the review, and at least one review bodyfield for being inputted with the detailed content of the review. FIGS.5, 6 and 13 schematically show exemplary review pages, on which a usermay read and/or input review information, and a product main page, whichdisplays various information of a piece of goods or a service, of asmart watch product on the product review website 4 according to certainembodiments of the present disclosure. A review page may have a Prossection displaying positive opinions on the exemplary smart watchproduct that are inputted by one or more users, which may includepositive review titles and positive review bodies. For example, a firstpositive review title may read “the watch case is made of stainless andhas a smooth and bright luster”, and a second positive review title mayread “suitable for formal occasions”, and each positive review title canbe arranged adjacent to a positive review body that shows review contentin more detail and related to the review title. Likewise, a review pagemay have a Cons section displaying negative opinions on the exemplarysmart watch product that are inputted by one or more users, which mayinclude negative review titles and negative review bodies. For example,a negative review title may read “the price is a bit high”, and isarranged adjacent to a negative review body that shows the reviewcontent in more detail and related to the negative review title.However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and in certainembodiments, at least one of the Pros and the Cons sections may have thereview title(s) but not the review bod(ies). In certain embodiments,each of the Pros section and the Cons section may have at least onereview title field for a user to input therein brief review text or thegist of a review, such as the text referred supra in the review titles,and at least one review body for a user to input therein review contentin more detail and related to the review title. When a user finishesfilling information, at a client device 2 or the remote computing device1, in the fields in the Pros and/or Cons section, and decides to sendthe information to the product review website 4, that is, to be receivedat the remote computing device 1, the inputted information is convertedinto a product review message by the client device 2 or the remotecomputing device 1 through which the information is inputted, whichincludes the respective pieces of information inputted on the reviewpage, for example, the product basic information including “smartwatch”, the positive review information including all of the content ofthe Pros section, and the negative review information including all ofthe content of the Cons section. A product review message can containinformation including the review title(s) and/or the review bod(ies) andindication of the correspondence between the review title(s) and thereview bod(ies) in the Pros section and/or in the Cons section.

In certain embodiments, a product review message contains a useridentification code, a piece of product identification information, atleast one piece of positive review information, and at least one pieceof negative review information. The user identification code in theproduct review message corresponds to one of the user identificationcodes in the user data collection 181, and the remote computing device 1is configured to retrieve the matching piece of user data and the userinformation therein in the user data collection 181 according to thecorrespondence between the user identification code in the productreview message and the matching piece of user data. The productidentification information corresponds to a piece of product data in theproduct data collection 182, and may include product name and/or productunique identification code, etc., and the remote computing device 1 isconfigured to retrieve a matching piece of product data in the productdata collection 182 based on the correspondence between the productidentification information in the product review message and the productbasic information in the piece of product data. However, the presentdisclosure is not limited thereto, and a product review message mayinclude, partly or wholly, other information inputted by the user on theproduct review website 4. In certain embodiments, a product reviewmessage may include a piece of positive review information but not apiece of negative review information, for example, the value of anegative review information field of a product review message is null,if a user does not input information in the negative review field shownon a review page of the product review website 4. Likewise, a productreview message may include a piece of negative review information butnot a piece of positive review information, for example, the value of apositive review information field of the product review message is null,if a user does not input information in the positive review field shownon a review page of the product review website 4.

In certain embodiments, the information inputted by the user on theproduct review website 4, converted into a product review message by theclient device 2, and sent by the client device 2 to the remote computingdevice 1, or inputted at the remote computing device 1, can be employedby the remote computing device 1 to generate positive and negativefeature points. In certain embodiments, the information, for example,positive and/or negative review information or any that could present ina product review message as referred to supra, inputted by the user in aclient device 2 or the remote computing device 1, whether on the productreview website 4, or not on the product review website 4 but inputted inthe client device 2 or the remote computing device 1 in an offline statewith respect to the product review website 4, can be employed by theremote computing device 1 to generate positive and negative keywords andfeature points, or by the client device 2 to generate positive andnegative keywords and feature points through procedures and/or modulesthe same as or similar to those of the remote computing device 1 asdescribed in the present disclosure, and whose description is thereforeomitted herein for brevity. The remote computing device 1 is configuredto receive a product review message which may be sent from a clientdevice 2; extract the positive review information in the product reviewmessage, for example, the linguistic/text information in the positivereview title(s) and/or the positive review bod(ies) and the respectivecorrespondence information therebetween; update the positive reviewinformation of a corresponding piece of product data in the product datacollection 182 according to the positive review information in theproduct review message; extract the negative review information in theproduct review message, for example, the linguistic/text information inthe negative review title(s) and/or the negative review bod(ies) and therespective correspondence information therebetween, and update thenegative review information of a corresponding piece of product data inthe product data collection 182 according to the negative reviewinformation in the product review message. For example, referring againto the exemplary smart watch product described supra and FIGS. 5 and 6,for facilitating understanding only, certain review titles on a reviewpage by a user Tester1 may exemplarily be named and understoodrespectively as, but not limited to, TTA, TTB and TTU, and the reviewbodies respectively as DBA, DBB and DBU, by or in the remote computingdevice 1 and the product review message, and correspondence relationshipbetween TTA and DBA, between TTB and DBB, and between TTU and DBU can beindicated in the product review message, and can be indicated in theproduct data collection 182 by updating the product data collection 182according to the indications in the product review message; andlikewise, certain review titles on a review page by a user Tester2 mayexemplarily be named and understood respectively as, but not limited to,TTC and TTV, and the review page can have or does not have review bodiesthat correspond to review titles TTC and TTV, respectively. For example,the review page in FIG. 6 shows the review body DBV corresponding to thereview title TTV without showing a review body corresponding to thereview title TTC.

At least one of the remote computing device 1 and at least one clientdevice 2 has a semantics analysis module, for example, the semanticsanalysis module 17, configured to perform positive review analysis suchas semantics analysis, text mining, etc. on the positive reviewinformation of the product review message(s), and generate at least onesemantically meaningful positive keyword based on the review analysisperformed. The generated positive keyword(s) can be used to generate atleast one positive feature point. The technique(s) and tool(s) employedin performing the positive review analysis can include text segmentationtools such as Jieba, Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing (CKIP)tools, etc., Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) applicable to Pythonprograms, latent semantics analysis (LSA) tools, etc. At least one ofthe remote computing device 1 and at least one client device 2 isconfigured to add the generated positive keyword(s) of the product in atleast one positive keyword field of the product data thereof in, andthereby update, the product data collection 182, and in certainembodiments, also that in the product data collection(s) of at least oneclient device(s) 2, and thereby update the product data collection(s).Accordingly, at least one webpage of the product review website 4 thatcorresponds to the product can contain positive feature point(s)displayable through a browser application program on a client device 2and/or the remote computing device 1. As a result, with more usersinvolving in writing reviews for the product, more positive featurepoints can be generated and included in the positive feature field(s) ofthe piece of product data of the product, as well as displayed on thewebpage(s) of the product review website 4 that corresponds to theproduct.

Likewise, at least one of the remote computing device 1 and at least oneclient device 2 has a semantics analysis module, for example, thesemantics analysis module 17, that is configured to perform negativereview analysis such as semantics analysis, text mining, etc. on thenegative review information of the product review message(s), andgenerate at least one semantically meaningful negative keyword based onthe review analysis performed. The generated negative keyword(s) can beused to generate at least one negative feature point. The technique(s)and tools employed in performing the negative review analysis caninclude text segmentation tools, for example, Jieba, CKIP tools, etc.,NLTK applicable to Python programs, LSA tools, etc. At least one of theremote computing device 1 and at least one client device 2 is configuredto add the generated negative keyword(s) of the product in at least onenegative keyword field of the piece of product data thereof in, andthereby update, the product data collection 182, and in certainembodiments, also that in the product data collection(s) of at least oneclient device(s) 2, and thereby update the product data collection(s).Accordingly, at least one webpage of the product review website 4 thatcorresponds to the product can contain negative feature point(s)displayable through a browser application program on a client device 2and/or the remote computing device 1. Accordingly, with more usersinvolving in reviewing the product, more negative feature points can begenerated and included in the negative feature field(s) of the piece ofproduct data of the product, as well as displayed on the webpage(s) ofthe product review website that corresponds to the product.

The sequence of performing the positive review analysis and the negativereview analysis and adding and updating product data collection(s) withthe positive and negative keywords can be varied as desired and is notnecessarily in the order of the description above. Further, as a productreview message or information inputted by a user may contain positivereview information but not negative review information, or containnegative review information but not positive review information, theremote computing device 1, and/or at least one client device 2, mayaccordingly omit certain analysis described above in response todetermining that such information is absent.

In certain embodiments, at least one of the remote computing device 1and at least one client device 2 has a semantics analysis module, forexample, the semantics analysis module 17, that performs semanticsanalysis, such as segmentation, decomposition, factorization or in anyother way that systematically breaks down text, information extraction,etc., on the text information of all of the review title(s) and/orreview bod(ies) received from or inputted in a client device 2 or theremote computing device 1; based on the text information of each of thereview title(s) and the review bod(ies), generate at least onesemantically meaningful keyword that is either a positive keyword or anegative keyword as the result of the semantics analysis; and store thegenerated keyword(s) of each review title or review body as a key array.Referring to FIG. 7A, for example, a first plurality of positivekeywords A1, A2, etc. may be generated by the semantics analysis module17 and/or the semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2from the text in the exemplary review title TTA through segmentation,decomposition, factorization, information extraction, or other semanticsanalysis techniques, and stored as a first key array Key_A(A1, A2, . . .); and a second plurality of positive keywords DA1, DA2, etc. may begenerated by the semantics analysis module 17 and/or the semanticsanalysis module of at least one client device 2 from the text in theexemplary review body DBA through segmentation, decomposition,factorization, information extraction, or other semantics analysistechniques, and stored as a second key array DBA(DA1, DA2, . . . ), andassigned with an indication of correspondence with the first key arrayKey_A(A1, A2, . . . ) by the remote computing device 1 or the clientdevice 2. Similarly, referring to FIGS. 6-7B, should another userTester2 fill in opinions and such opinions be displayed in the Pros andCons sections of a review or product main page of the exemplary smartwatch product, keywords C1, C2, V1, V2, etc. and key arrays Key_C(C1,C2, . . . ) and Key_V(V1, V2, . . . ) can be generated from the reviewtitles exemplarily shown as TTC and TTV. In certain embodiments,semantics analysis and keyword and key array generation and storage maybe performed only to review titles and not to review bodies.

In certain embodiments, the positive and negative review analysis andpositive and negative keyword generation, including segmenting the textof review information into semantically meaningful keywords, can includeextracting linguistic units from the text information, mapping thelinguistic units with a predefined meaningful linguistic unit datacollection that is stored in a storage device of, or external of andindependent from, the remote computing device 1, and generating thepositive and negative keywords according to the mapping. The predefinedmeaningful linguistic unit data collection includes information ofmeaningful linguistic units, such as “color”, and of relevant linguisticunits that are predefined to be related to the meaningful linguisticunits, such as “colorful”. The mapping includes comparing the extractedlinguistic units with the meaningful linguistic units and relevantlinguistic units; in response to determining that an extractedlinguistic unit is a meaningful linguistic unit in the meaningfullinguistic unit data collection, define the meaningful linguistic unitas the keyword, or in response to determining that an extractedlinguistic unit is a relevant linguistic unit, for example, “colorful”,define the meaningful linguistic unit in the meaningful linguistic unitdata that corresponds to the relevant linguistic unit, for example,“color”, as the keyword; and in response to determining that noextracted linguistic unit corresponds to the meaningful linguistic unitsor relevant linguistic units, end the mapping and therefore no keywordis generated.

In certain embodiments, the positive keywords in the form of a keyarray, that is, a positive-keyword array, and the positive-keyword arrayitself, correspond to the positive review input field(s) inputted withthe text data from which the positive keywords and the positive-keywordarray are generated, and each positive-keyword array can correspond to adifferent positive review input field. For example, referring again toFIGS. 5-7A, the exemplary review title key arrays Key_A(A1, A2, . . . ),Key_B(B1, B2, . . . ), Key_C(C1, C2, . . . ), Key_F(F1, F2, . . . ),etc. respectively contain keywords A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, F1, F2, etc.that can be generated respectively from the text in review titles TTA,TTB, TTC, TTF, etc., and the exemplary review body key arrays DBA(DA1,DA2, . . . ), DBB(DB1, DB2, . . . ), DBF(DF1, DF2, . . . ), etc. thatare generated from the text in review bodies DBA, DBB, DBF, etc.respectively contain keywords DA1, DA2, DB1, DB2, DF1, DF2, etc.Similarly, the negative keywords in the form of a key array, that is, anegative-keyword array, and the negative-keyword array itself,correspond to the negative review input field(s) inputted with the textdata from which the negative keywords and the negative-keyword array aregenerated, and each negative-keyword array can correspond to a differentnegative review input field. For example, referring to FIGS. 5, 6 and7B, the exemplary review title key arrays Key_U(U1, U2, . . . ),Key_V(V1, V2, . . . ), etc. respectively contain keywords U1, U2, V1,V2, etc. that are generated respectively from the text in review titlesTTU, TTV, etc., and the exemplary review body key arrays DBU(DU1, DU2, .. . ) and DBV(DV1, DV2, . . . ) that are generated respectively from thetext in review bodies DBU and DBV respectively contain keywords DU1,DU2, DV1, DV2, etc.

Referring to FIG. 8, the positive keywords, in certain embodiments inthe form of positive-keyword arrays, that are generated from thepositive review(s) can form a first group of an unsorted two groupkeyword array, and can be performed by the feature point generationmodule 16 and the semantics analysis module 17, and/or the feature pointgeneration module and the semantics analysis module of at least oneclient device 2, with positive-keyword merge algorithm computation togenerate at least one positive feature point. Similarly, the negativekeywords, in certain embodiments in the form of negative-keyword arrays,that are generated from the negative review(s) can form a second groupof the unsorted two group keyword array, and can be performed withnegative-keyword merge algorithm computation to generate at least onenegative feature point.

However, the present disclosure is not limited to the description supra,and the described semantics analysis and keyword and key arraygeneration and storage can be performed on all or part of the reviewtitle(s), review bod(ies), review abstract(s) and any other reviewinformation related to a product listed on the product review website 4.In particular, the semantically meaningful positive keywords generatedby the semantics analysis module 17 of the remote computing device 1,and/or by the semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2,can be based on all or part of the positive review information of theproduct that is inputted by the user(s) reviewing the product in thepositive review input fields, such as the review title fields, reviewbody fields, review abstract(s) and/or any other review information onthe review page(s) thereof. In certain embodiments, the positive reviewinformation includes all of the information inputted in the positivereview input fields of all the reviews of the goods or service bydifferent users. Likewise, the semantically meaningful negative keywordsgenerated by the semantics analysis module 17, and/or by the semanticsanalysis module of at least one client device 2, can be based on all orpart of the negative review information of the product that is inputtedby the user(s) reviewing the product in the negative review inputfields, such as the review title fields, review body fields, reviewabstract(s) and/or any other review information on the review page(s)thereof. In certain embodiments, the negative review informationincludes all of the information inputted in the negative review inputfields of all the reviews of the product by different users. In otherwords, the positive or negative review information based on which thesemantically meaningful positive or negative keyword(s) is generated canbe all or part of the positive or negative review information inputtedby one user on the same single review or multiple reviews created by theuser and, under a condition that a review corresponds to a productreview message, corresponding to and contained in one or more productreview messages; or can be all or part of the positive or negativereview information inputted by multiple users on multiple reviewscreated by multiple users and, under a condition that a reviewcorresponds to a product review message, corresponding to and containedin multiple product review messages.

The keywords and key arrays generated are then used by the variousopinion evaluation system according to the present disclosure togenerate at least one special feature point. As described supra, aspecial feature point according to the present disclosure can identifyconflict points of a topic, that is, the intersection of positiveevaluation and negative evaluation. Referring to FIGS. 9A and 9B, akeyword in the intersection KI of a set of positive keyword(s) PK and aset of negative keyword(s) NK has attribute(s) that suit it both as apositive keyword and a negative keyword, which may suit it both as apositive feature point and as a negative feature point, and therefore aspecial feature point. Such a keyword can be present both in at leastone positive review PR and at least one negative review NR of a piece ofgoods or a service and/or be generated or retrieved both from thepositive review(s) PR and from the negative review(s) NR, and thereforeis referred to in the present disclosure as a common keyword or specialkeyword SK. On the contrary, if a keyword only presents and/or iscapable of being generated only from either the positive review(s) PR orthe negative review(s) NR, such a keyword is determined by at least onefeature point generation module of at least one of the remote computingdevice 1 and at least one client device 2, for example, the featurepoint generation module 16, to be a one-sided keyword and not employedin its special feature point generation process. In certain embodiments,referring to FIG. 9B, the intersection KI includes a plurality ofspecial keywords SK including a first special keyword SK1 and a secondspecial keyword SK2, the first special keyword SK1 is present both in,and/or generated or retrieved both from, at least one first positivereview PR1 and at least one first negative review NR1 of a piece ofgoods or a service, the second special keyword SK2 is present both in,and/or generated or retrieved both from, at least one second positivereview PR2 and at least one second negative review NR2 of a second pieceof goods or service, wherein the first special keyword SK1 is differentfrom the second special keyword SK2, the first positive review PR1 isthe same as or different from the second positive review PR2, the firstnegative review NR1 is the same as or different from the second negativereview NR2, and the first goods or service is the same or different fromthe second goods or service. In certain embodiments, at least one of theremote computing device 1 and at least one client device 2 has asemantics analysis module, for example, the semantics analysis module17, configured to compare a first keyword generated or retrieved fromone of at least one positive review and at least one negative reviewwith a second keyword generated or retrieved from another one of the atleast one positive review and at least one negative review. For example,the semantics analysis module 17, and/or the semantics analysis moduleof at least one client device 2, can individually or collectivelycompare a first keyword generated from a positive review and a secondkeyword generated from a negative review; determine whether the firstkeyword is semantically similar to or the same as the second keywordbased on, for example, but not limited to, a predetermined fixed orvariant similarity threshold and/or a semantic overlapping datacollection as described infra; determine that the first keyword issemantically similar to or the same as the second keyword in response todetermining the similarity therebetween equal to or exceeding thesimilarity threshold and/or the first and second keywords correspondingto at least one same semantic node in the semantic overlapping datacollection; determine that the first keyword is not semantically similarto the second keyword in response to determining the similaritytherebetween is below the similarity threshold and/or that the first andsecond keywords does not correspond to any same semantic node in thesemantic overlapping data collection; in response to determining thefirst and second keywords are semantically similar or the same, mergethe first keyword with the second keyword according to a special mergealgorithm; and generate at least one special feature point according tothe merge of the first and second keywords. However, the presentdisclosure is not limited thereto, and a keyword merge may be performedon more than two keywords among which each is a keyword generated from apositive review or a negative review.

In certain embodiments, at least one of the remote computing device 1and at least one client device 2 is configured to retrieve part or allof the positive keywords in the keyword information of the product datacorresponding to the goods or service in the product data collection182, and/or that in the product data collection of at least one clientdevice 2; merge the retrieved positive keyword(s) according to apositive-keyword merge algorithm; and generate at least one positivefeature point having a first weighting value according to the merge ofthe positive keyword(s). In certain embodiments, the remote computingdevice 1 and/or at least one client device 2, collectively orindividually, through the positive-keyword merge algorithm, can mergethe positive keywords by employing semantics analysis techniques on thepositive keywords in the positive key arrays, and individually orcollectively by the semantics analysis module 17 and/or the semanticsanalysis module of at least one client device 2, can assign positivekeywords having semantic overlapping, that is, sharing semanticsimilarity, into the same semantic group, therefore forming one ormultiple semantic groups based on the respective semantic attributes ofall positive keywords. In certain embodiments, positive keywords havingsemantic overlapping are assigned into the same semantic group based onthe semantic overlapping data collection that is stored in a storagedevice of, or external of and independent from, the remote computingdevice 1. The semantic overlapping data collection includes informationof meaningful linguistic units that have semantic overlapping, such ashypernyms, hyponyms, synonyms, etc., and that are arranged as semanticnodes, and of the predefined similarity value(s) given to any twomeaningful linguistic units of a semantic node. In response todetermining two positive keywords correspond to the same first semanticnode, the two positive keywords are assigned into the same semanticgroup, and another positive keyword is assigned into the same semanticgroup in response to determining that the another positive keyword andany of the two positive keywords correspond to the same second semanticnode that is the same or different from the first semantic node.

For example, referring to FIGS. 7A and 10, assuming that a plurality ofpositive key arrays of the same goods or service include the exemplarykey arrays Key_A, Key_B and Key_F and DBA, DBB and DBF that areassociated therewith, and the positive keywords A1 and A2 in Key_A,positive keyword B4 in Key_B and positive keyword DF1 in DBFsemantically overlap one another, with all the semantic overlappingparts shown as a dotted semantically overlapping portion SO in FIG. 10.The semantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module ofat least one client device 2, individually or collectively, can performsemantics analysis on the positive key arrays, and the feature pointgeneration module 16 and/or the feature point generation module of atleast one client device 2, individually or collectively, can generate atleast one positive feature point by defining the positive keyword in asemantic group that accounts for the largest portion of the semanticallyoverlapping portion SO as the positive feature point, such as thekeyword DF1 shown in FIG. 10, which accounts for the largest portion ofthe semantically overlapping portion SO of the semantic group it belongsto. In certain embodiments, the semantics analysis module 17 and/or thesemantics analysis module of at least one client device 2, individuallyor collectively, can determine a semantic overlapping degree of asemantic group that is any semantic overlapping between any twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same semantic group,for example, the sum of the predefined similarity values between any twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same semantic group asdefined in the semantic overlapping data collection; and determine asemantic overlapping ratio of each of the positive keywords in the samesemantic group that is a ratio of any semantic overlapping between thepositive keyword and any other positive keyword in the same semanticgroup to the semantic overlapping degree, for example, the sum of thepredefined similarity value(s) between the positive keyword and anyother positive keyword in the same semantic group as defined in thesemantic overlapping data collection to the semantic overlapping degree.The feature point generation module 16 and/or the feature pointgeneration module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can define one of the positive keywords in the samesemantic group that has a highest semantic overlapping ratio among thesemantic overlapping ratios as the positive feature point. Referring toFIGS. 10 and 12A, the positive keyword DF1 can be defined as a positivefeature point Merger_DF1. Such positive feature point(s) collectivelyforms a Pros group. In certain embodiments, the semantics analysismodule 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of at least one clientdevice 2, individually or collectively, can determine, for each of thepositive keywords in the same semantic group, the sum of the predefinedsimilarity value(s) between the positive keyword and any other positivekeyword in the same semantic group as defined in the semanticoverlapping data collection; and the feature point generation module 16and/or the feature point generation module of at least one client device2, individually or collectively, can define one of the positive keywordsin the same semantic group that has a highest sum of the predefinedsimilarity value(s) between the positive keyword and any other positivekeyword in the same semantic group as the positive feature point. Thefeature point generation module 16 and/or the feature point generationmodule of at least one client device 2, individually or collectively,can further define the weighting value of a positive feature point asthe sum of the weighting values of the positive keywords of the semanticgroup to which the positive feature point belongs, for example,referring to FIG. 10, the weighting value of Merger_DF1 is the sum ofthe weighting values of the positive keywords A1, A2, B4 and DF1, takinginto account the number of as well as the respective weighting values ofthe positive keywords merged. Accordingly, referring to FIG. 8, thegenerated positive feature point(s) with its weighting value calculatedas described supra forms a first group of an unsorted two group mergedkeyword array.

In certain embodiments, at least one of the remote computing device 1and at least one client device 2 is configured to retrieve part or allof the negative keywords in the keyword information of the product datacorresponding to the goods or service in the product data collection182, and/or that in the product data collection of at least one clientdevice 2; merge the retrieved negative keyword(s) according to anegative-keyword merge algorithm; and generate at least one negativefeature point having a second weighting value according to the merge ofthe negative keyword(s). In certain embodiments, the remote computingdevice 1 and/or at least one client device 2, collectively orindividually, through the negative-keyword merge algorithm, can mergethe negative keywords by employing semantics analysis techniques on thenegative keywords in the negative key arrays, and individually orcollectively by the semantics analysis module 17 and/or by the semanticsanalysis module of at least one client device 2, can assign negativekeywords having semantic overlapping, that is, sharing semanticsimilarity, into the same semantic group, therefore forming one ormultiple semantic groups based on the respective semantic attributes ofall negative keywords. In certain embodiments, negative keywords havingsemantic overlapping are assigned into the same semantic group based onthe semantic overlapping data collection. In response to determining twonegative keywords correspond to the same semantic node, the two negativekeywords are assigned into the same semantic group, and another negativekeyword is assigned into the same semantic group in response todetermining that the another negative keyword and any of the twonegative keywords correspond to the same semantic node that is the sameor different of the semantic node of the two negative keywords.

For example, assuming that a plurality of negative key arrays haveseveral negative keywords semantically overlapping one another, andcollectively form a semantically overlapping portion, the semanticsanalysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of at least oneclient device 2, individually or collectively, can perform semanticsanalysis on the negative key arrays, and the feature point generationmodule 16 and/or the feature point generation module of at least oneclient device 2, individually or collectively, can generate at least onenegative feature point by defining the negative keyword in a semanticgroup that accounts for the largest portion of the semanticallyoverlapping portion as the negative feature point.

For example, referring to FIG. 12B, a negative keyword U2 accounts forthe largest portion of the semantically overlapping portion of asemantic group it belongs to is defined as a negative feature pointMerger_U2. In certain embodiments, the semantics analysis module 17and/or the semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2,individually or collectively, can determine a semantic overlappingdegree of a semantic group that is any semantic overlapping between anytwo semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same semanticgroup, for example, the sum of the predefined similarity values betweenany two semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same semanticgroup as defined in the semantic overlapping data collection; anddetermine a semantic overlapping ratio of each of the negative keywordsin the same semantic group that is a ratio of any semantic overlappingbetween the negative keyword and any other negative keyword in the samesemantic group to the semantic overlapping degree, for example, the sumof the predefined similarity value(s) between the negative keyword andany other negative keyword in the same semantic group as defined in thesemantic overlapping data collection to the semantic overlapping degree.The feature point generation module 16 and/or the feature pointgeneration module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can define one of the negative keywords in the samesemantic group that has a highest semantic overlapping ratio among thesemantic overlapping ratios as the negative feature point. Such negativefeature point(s) collectively forms a Cons group. In certainembodiments, the semantics analysis module 17 and/or the semanticsanalysis module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can determine, for each of the negative keywords in thesame semantic group, the sum of the predefined similarity value(s)between the negative keyword and any other negative keyword in the samesemantic group as defined in the semantic overlapping data collection;and the feature point generation module 16 and/or the feature pointgeneration module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can define one of the negative keywords in the samesemantic group that has a highest sum of the predefined similarityvalue(s) between the negative keyword and any other negative keyword inthe same semantic group as the negative feature point. The feature pointgeneration module 16 and/or the feature point generation module of atleast one client device 2, individually or collectively, can furtherdefine the weighting value of the negative feature point as the sum ofthe weighting values of negative keywords of the same semantic group towhich the negative feature point belongs, therefore taking into accountthe number of as well as the respective weighting values of the negativekeywords merged. Accordingly, referring to FIG. 8, the generatednegative feature point(s) with its weighting value calculated asdescribed supra forms a second group of the unsorted two group mergedkeyword array. In certain embodiments, referring to FIGS. 12A and 12B,with more reviews being inputted for a piece of goods or a service onthe product review website 4, multiple positive feature points and/ormultiple negative feature points can be generated, and assigned in thePros and Cons groups, respectively.

Referring again to FIG. 8, based on the generated positive and negativefeature points in the unsorted two group merged keyword array, thefeature point generation module 16 and/or the feature point generationmodule of at least one client device 2, individually or collectively,can generate at least one special feature point through special mergecomputation that is part of SFG ALG and based on a feature-point mergealgorithm. In certain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 and/orat least one client device 2, individually or collectively, can mergethe positive feature point(s) and the negative feature point(s) of apiece of goods or a service according to the feature-point mergealgorithm, and generate at least one special feature point based on themerge of the positive and negative feature points. The remote computingdevice 1 and/or at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can merge the positive and negative feature points by: thesemantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of atleast one client device 2 comparing the text of the positive featurepoint(s) with the text of the negative feature point(s) and identifyingat least one meaningful linguistic unit, such as a phrase, a word, asentence, the feature point itself, etc., that exists both in thepositive feature point(s) and the negative feature point(s); and thefeature point generation module 16 and/or the feature point generationmodule of at least one client device 2 defining the meaningfullinguistic unit as the special feature point(s). As shown in FIG. 12C,the special feature point(s) collectively forms a special feature group.Accordingly, a sorted three-dimensional keyword array that includes thespecial feature point(s), positive feature point(s), and negativefeature point(s) can be formed as a result of the special mergecomputation. That is, through SFG ALG, particularly special mergecomputation, two-dimensional information directed to positive-featureand negative-feature dimensions can be converted into three-dimensionalinformation directed to positive-feature, negative-feature andspecial-feature dimensions, which adds higher marketing and businessvalues to the feature points sorted out by the processes. The processesand result of the special merge computation, individually orcollectively, do not affect or change the positive feature point(s), thenegative feature point(s), or the positive and negative keywords fromwhich the feature points are generated.

The process of the special merge computation and configuration of thefeature point generation module 16 and/or of the feature pointgeneration module of at least one client device 2 for the specialfeature point generation will be better understood through the examplesinfra. Referring to FIGS. 5, 6 and 11-13, assuming that a commonmeaningful linguistic unit 41, for example, “stainless steel”, existsboth in a positive feature point Merger_DF1 and a negative feature pointMerger_V1, that is, in the feature point intersection FI of the positivefeature point Merger_DF1 and the negative feature point Merger_V1, thesemantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of atleast one client device 2 can compare the text of the positive featurepoint Merger_DF1 with the text of negative feature point Merger_V1, andidentify the common meaningful linguistic unit 41, “stainless steel”, bydetermining that it exists both in the positive feature point and thenegative feature point based on the comparison, and in response to thesemantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of atleast one client device 2 determining that at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit 41 exists both in the positive feature pointand the negative feature point, the feature point generation module 16and/or the feature point generation module of at least one client device2 can define the meaningful linguistic unit 41, exemplarily “stainlesssteel”, as a special feature point, which forms a special feature groupwith, if any, other special feature points, and define a weighting valueof the special feature point as the sum of the respective weightingvalues of the positive feature point(s) and the negative featurepoint(s) based on which the special feature point is generated. Forexample, referring to FIGS. 11-12C, the weighting value of the specialfeature point Merger_SF1 is set to 1540, which is the sum of theweighting value of Merger_DF1, 1500, in the Pros group and the weightingvalue of Merger_V1, 40, in the Cons Group.

In certain embodiments, the special merge computation involves a balancecurve algorithm to generate at least one special feature point fromsemantically similar linguistic units in the positive and negativefeature points. When at least one linguistic unit in at least onepositive feature point shares semantic similarity with, but is notentirely the same in its character form or semantic meaning as, forexample, being a hypernym, a hyponym, a synonym, etc. of, at least onelinguistic unit in at least one negative feature point, thesecorresponding linguistic units are referred to as semantically similarlinguistic units, and the positive and negative feature points assemantically similar feature points. At least one of the remotecomputing device 1 and at least one client device 2 has a semanticsanalysis module, for example, the semantics analysis module 17,configured to determine whether at least one first linguistic unit in atleast one positive feature point and at least one second linguistic unitin at least one negative feature point are semantically similarlinguistic units, for example, based on the semantic overlapping datacollection, and whether at least one positive feature point and at leastone negative feature point are semantically similar feature points, anddesignate one of the semantically similar linguistic units as the commonmeaningful linguistic unit. At least one of the remote computing device1 and at least one client device 2 has a feature point generationmodule, for example, the feature point generation module 16, configuredto generate at least one special feature point based on the balancecurve algorithm in response to the semantics analysis module 17 and/orthe semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2determining the linguistic units are semantically similar linguisticunits and the positive feature point(s) and the negative featurepoint(s) are semantically similar feature points, for example, inresponse to receiving a message sent from the semantics analysis module17 or the semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2indicating that the linguistic units are semantically similar linguisticunits and the positive feature point(s) and the negative featurepoint(s) are semantically similar feature points.

In certain embodiments, the semantics analysis module 17 and/or thesemantics analysis module of at least one client device 2, individuallyor collectively, can perform semantics analysis on the positive featurepoint(s) and the negative feature point(s); generate positive andnegative meaningful linguistic units respectively from the positivefeature point(s) and negative feature point(s) based on the semanticsanalysis, for example, each of the positive feature point(s) andnegative feature point(s) may be segmented into, and/or itself betreated as, at least one meaningful linguistic unit; determine whetherat least one first linguistic unit in at least one positive featurepoint and at least one second linguistic unit in at least one negativefeature point are semantically similar linguistic units for example,based on the semantic overlapping data collection, and whether at leastone positive feature point and at least one negative feature point aresemantically similar feature points according to the semantics analysis;and store the semantic similarity information of the semanticallysimilar linguistic units and feature points, including the identitiesand similarity correspondence of the semantically similar linguisticunits and feature points, as alinguistic-unit-and-feature-point-semantical-similarity data collectionin the datastore 18 or in another datastore or storage device as part ofor independent from the product data collection 182, and/or in thedatastore of at least one client device 2.

In certain embodiments, the semantics analysis module 17 and/or thesemantics analysis module of at least one client device 2, individuallyor collectively, can compare the positive meaningful linguistic unit(s)of the positive feature point(s) with the negative meaningful linguisticunit(s) of the negative feature point(s); determine whether at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive featurepoint(s) and the negative feature point(s) based on the comparison;determine whether or not the common meaningful linguistic unit is apositive feature point or a negative feature point; in response todetermining no common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in thepositive feature point(s) and the negative feature point(s), end thespecial merge computation or, based on the semantic overlapping datacollection, determine whether at least one first linguistic unit in atleast one positive feature point and at least one second linguistic unitin at least one negative feature point are semantically similarlinguistic units, and whether the positive feature point and thenegative feature point from which the positive and negative meaningfullinguistic units are generated are semantically similar feature points;in response to determining at least one first linguistic unit in atleast one positive feature point and at least one second linguistic unitin at least one negative feature point are semantically similarlinguistic units, designate one of the semantically similar linguisticunits as the common meaningful linguistic unit; and in response todetermining no linguistic unit in at least one positive feature point isa semantically similar linguistic unit to any linguistic unit in atleast one negative feature point, end the special merge computation.

At least one of the remote computing device 1 and at least one clientdevice 2 has a feature point generation module, for example, the featurepoint generation module 16, configured to, in response to the semanticsanalysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of at least oneclient device 2 determining the common meaningful linguistic unit is apositive feature point or a negative feature point, define the positivefeature point or the negative feature point as the special featurepoint; in response to determining the positive feature point and thenegative feature point from which the designated common meaningfullinguistic unit is generated are semantically similar feature points,generate at least one special feature point that is either the positivefeature point, the negative feature point, or the common meaningfullinguistic unit based on the balance curve algorithm. In certainembodiments, the feature point generation module 16 and/or the featurepoint generation module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can apply the balance curve algorithm to the featurepoints and the meaningful linguistic units thereof in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is not a positivefeature point and not a negative feature point, and therefore thedetermination of the semantic similarity of the feature points can beomitted. In certain embodiments, the feature point generation module 16and/or the feature point generation module of at least one client device2, individually or collectively, can define the at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit as a special feature point in response todetermining at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists bothin the positive feature point(s) and the negative feature point(s), andtherefore the application of the balance curve algorithm anddetermination of whether the common meaningful linguistic unit is apositive feature point or a negative feature point can be omitted.

Referring to FIG. 14, in certain embodiments, the execution of thebalance curve algorithm of the feature point generation module 16 and/orthe feature point generation module of at least one client device 2 isbased on a predetermined positive-feature threshold, a predeterminednegative-feature threshold, and merge information that includes theweighting value of the positive feature point, the text information ofthe positive feature point, the weighting value of the negative featurepoint, the text information of the negative feature point, and the textinformation of the at least one common meaningful linguistic unit thatexists both in the positive feature point and the negative feature pointor that is designated. At least one of the remote computing device 1 andat least one client device 2 has a feature point generation module, forexample, the feature point generation module 16, configured to generatea first numeral value according to the weighting values of the positiveand negative feature points and a second numeral value according to theweighting values of the positive and negative feature points; determinewhether the first numeral value is greater than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold; determine whether the second numeral valueis greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold; inresponse to determining the first numeral value is greater than thepredetermined positive-feature threshold, defining and outputting thepositive feature point as the special feature point; in response todetermining the second numeral value is greater than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, defining and outputting the negative featurepoint as the special feature point; in response to determining the firstnumeral value is smaller than the predetermined positive-featurethreshold and the second numeral value is smaller than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, defining and outputting the commonmeaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point. In certainembodiments, in response to determining the first numeral value is equalto or smaller to the predetermined positive-feature threshold and thesecond numeral value is equal to or smaller to the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, the feature point generation module 16and/or the feature point generation module of at least one client device2, individually or collectively, can define and output the commonmeaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point. However, thepresent disclosure is not limited thereto, and in certain embodiments, afeature point generation module is configured to, in response todetermining the first numeral value is equal to the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, define and output the positive feature pointas the special feature point, and/or in response to determining thesecond numeral value is equal to the predetermined negative-featurethreshold, define and output the negative feature point as the specialfeature point. In certain embodiments, the first numeral value isgenerated by the feature point generation module 16 and/or the featurepoint generation module of at least one client device 2 by subtractingthe weighting value of the negative feature point from the weightingvalue of the positive feature point, and the second numeral value isgenerated by subtracting the weighting value of the positive featurepoint from the weighting value of the negative feature point.

For example, referring to FIG. 14, in response to determining a numeralvalue generated based on the positive feature point Merger_DF1 and thenegative feature point Merger_V1, such as subtracting the weightingvalue of Merger_V1 from the weighting value of Merger_DF1, is greaterthan a positive feature threshold Pros_THR, the feature point generationmodule 16 and/or the feature point generation module of at least oneclient device 2, individually or collectively, can define and output thepositive feature point Merger_DF1 as the special feature point. Inresponse to determining a numeral value generated based on the positivefeature point Merger_DF1 and the negative feature point Merger_V1, suchas subtracting the weighting value of Merger_DF1 from the weightingvalue of Merger_V1, is greater than a negative feature thresholdCons_THR, the feature point generation module 16 and/or the featurepoint generation module of at least one client device 2, individually orcollectively, can define and output the negative feature point Merger_V1as the special feature point. In response to determining that a numeralvalue satisfies neither of the above conditions, the feature pointgeneration module 16 and/or the feature point generation module of atleast one client device 2, individually or collectively, can output atleast one common meaningful linguistic unit(s) that exists both in thepositive feature point Merger_DF1 and the negative feature pointMerger_V1 or is designated as the special feature point.

In certain embodiments, the afore-referenced tasks including keywordgeneration and retrieval, keyword merge, feature point merge, and/orfeature point generation may be set to be performed on a daily base.However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Based onpractical needs and the loading of and exerted on the remote computingdevice 1 and/or at least one client device 2, the time interval of thetasks may be shorter or longer, or the tasks may be performed real-time,for example, whenever a user adds any review content for a piece ofgoods or a service.

Accordingly, when a user, through a client device 2 or a remotecomputing device 1, browses on a product page for a particular piece ofgoods or service on the product review website 4, such as the exemplarysmart watch review page(s) described supra, at least one special featurepoint, such as “stainless steel”, can be displayed on such a page. Incertain embodiments, should there be a plurality of special featurepoints, the remote computing device 1 is configured to sort the specialfeature points in the order of their weighting values, for example,descending from the one having the highest value to the one having thelowest value, and place a special feature point that has a greaterweighting value to a more noticeable location on a page for the goods orservice on the product review website 4, so that a user may discern sucha special feature point more swiftly on the page. Accordingly, as aspecial feature point is usually a meaningful linguistic unit that is ofa more subjective character, while the positive and negative featurepoints are that of a more objective character, with the aid of thespecial feature point(s) according to the present disclosure, users canswiftly grasp the topicality of or the controversy related to a piece ofgoods or service, without spending excessive effort and time to gothrough comments that are of more objective characters, whicheffectively improves the effectiveness and presentation structure of thekeyword/feature point information displayed on the review website 4.

Reference is made again to the afore-referenced smart watch product asan exemplary product employing the various opinion evaluation systemaccording to the present disclosure, as well as to FIGS. 5, 6 and 13,which show how the special feature point(s) generated according to thepresent disclosure allows users to grasp the subjective characters moreswiftly, and serve also as topical linguistic units to allow users tounderstand the topicality of the goods or service in social communities.The positive and negative feature points that are generated from thecontent of positive and negative reviews of the smart watch product bydifferent users on the product review website 4 may have at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit, for example, the “stainless steel”feature as shown in broken-line blocks 411 and 412 in FIGS. 5 and 6,which can be displayed as a special feature point such as that shown inthe broken-line block 41 in FIG. 13 on a product page of the smart watchproduct on the product review website 4. Accordingly, users can swiftlyrecognize that a special feature of the product, that is, the smartwatch, is stainless. In certain embodiments, a user can click on virtualbuttons displayed on the page(s) of the goods or service to sort out theinformation that interests the user. For example, referring again toFIG. 13, a virtual button 421 can be clicked by a user for the productpage to show the special feature point(s), for example, the specialfeature point as a meaningful linguistic unit “stainless steel” shown inthe broken-line block 41, and the positive reviews and negative reviewsrelated to the special feature point as the meaningful linguistic unit“stainless steel”, such as those shown in broken-line blocks 411 and 412in FIGS. 5, 6 and 13 that contain the meaningful linguistic unit“stainless steel”, so that a user may swiftly and conveniently check oncontroversial and topical information that is less of an objectivecharacter. Similarly, a virtual button 422 can be clicked by a user onthe product page to show the positive feature point(s) and the positivereview(s) related to the positive feature point(s), so that a user mayswiftly and conveniently check on the positive information recognized bymost users that is more of an objective character, and a virtual button423 can be clicked by a user on the product page to show the negativefeature point(s) and the negative review(s) related to the negativefeature point(s), so that a user may swiftly and conveniently check onthe negative information recognized by most users that is more of anobjective character. Accordingly, a user who holds a negative opinion ona feature presented as a special feature point according to the presentdisclosure, such as a user who is allergic or not fond of stainlesssteel, can quickly skip the product(s) associated with the specialfeature point, which not only saves the user's browsing time, but alsokeeps the user from a likely poor user experience if he or she purchasesthe product. In this way, with the passage of time, as a productgradually moves from an early stage to a mature stage, since the specialfeature point(s) according to the present disclosure allows a user tounderstand the conflict points of a piece of goods or a service as earlyas possible so as to facilitate the user to make purchase decisionsaccording to his or her own preferences, consumers that may not besatisfied by the product can be prevented from purchasing the product inadvance, and the proportion of positive reviews received by the productin the long term would increase.

In addition, from the perspectives of an business entity, since thespecial feature point(s) does not appear in all of the reviews of apiece of goods or a service, and once it appears, it means the specialfeature point(s) has become a conflict point or topical point betweenthe supporters and the opposers of the goods or service, the marketingpersonnel in the business entity can set and carry out marketingstrategies by using the special feature point(s) as the focal point ofor as the keyword used in the marketing strategies. In this way, suchmarketing strategies can attract consumers interested in such keywordsthat are developed from the special feature point(s), and make theconsumers to pay more attention on the product. In addition, as thespecial feature point(s) can be generated from the content of reviews bymultiple users, whose reviews have been semantically analyzed to obtainpositive and negative keywords, positive and negative feature points,common meaningful linguistic unit(s) and special feature point(s), suchusers who have left reviews on the product review website 4 can betargeted with more precise advertisement recommendation by a businessentity based on the content of their reviews, for example, theirpreferences.

Further, as the weighting value of the special feature point(s)according to the present disclosure can take into account the respectiveweighting values of the positive feature point(s) and negative featurepoint(s), a business entity can use such a special feature point as thebasis for analyzing the proportions of the supporters and the opposersof a piece of goods or service in the market, thereby avoiding statisticweighting dilution that can otherwise occur when a keyword dispersesboth in the positive reviews and negative reviews in a conventionalreview system. Further, as a product becomes more successful in a marketand people gradually become more used to use and acceptive to theproduct, the proportion of the reviews thereof that are more subjectivein character can increase. Therefore, the special feature point(s) canserve for business entities as an analysis index of the product andpoint a direction for the improvement of the product technique or forthe technique specification in the future. Thereby, a next generationproduct can also be analyzed for its product positioning, anddifferentiation strategies that differentiate the product from itscompetitors can be framed. In addition, business entities can alsoanalyze the information of the consumers attracted by the specialfeature point(s), and obtain the proportion change in market acceptanceof different consumer groups, such as teenagers, children, white-collarworkers, homemakers, etc., of the goods or service, so as to estimatethe spread rate of the goods or service in different markets.Accordingly, more effective or more targeting advertising resources canbe used by business entities on different consumer groups.

In certain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 is configured toprioritize feature points of a piece of goods or a service according tothe popularity of the feature points. The feature points to beprioritized may be at least two of at least one special feature point,at least one positive feature point and at least one negative featurepoint. In certain embodiments, the popularity of a feature point to beprioritized is determined by the search therefor on the product reviewwebsite 4, that is, the times the feature point has been searched in aperiod of time on the website. In certain embodiments, the remotecomputing device 1 executes a character search number algorithm tocalculate and record the number of time of a feature point as a whole issearched by users on the product review website 4 as a whole keyword oras a part of the character formation of a keyword, that is, the time(s)the character(s) of the feature point(s) appears in the searchedkeywords in a period of time.

The remote computing device 1 is configured to determine, through thecharacter search number algorithm, the search number of each of thespecial, positive and/or negative feature point(s) generated by thefeature point generation module 16 and/or the feature point generationmodule of at least one client device 2 based on the content in thepositive and negative reviews, such as the content inputted by a userfor a product in the above-referenced Pros and Cons sections on a reviewpage with the aid of the guiding of the product review website 4; andgenerate at least one webpage of the product review website 4 that isrelated to the product and places the feature point(s) at location(s)thereon in the order of user noticeability, for example, from top to thebottom of the webpage, or update at least one webpage of the productreview website 4 that is related to the product to place the featurepoint(s) at location(s) thereon in the order of user noticeability. Incertain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 generates a prioritylist prioritizing the feature point(s) of the goods or service based onthe search number(s) of the feature point(s), and listing the featurepoint(s) in a priority order from high to low in positive correlation tothe search number(s) of the feature point(s).

In certain embodiments, feature and search number combined linguisticunit(s) can be shown on a page related to a piece of goods or a serviceon the product review website 4. For example, an exemplary positivefeature and search number combined linguistic unit may include apositive feature point “light and thin” affixed with a number of “2”that indicates the current search number of the feature “light and thin”on the product review website 4 is twice, which collectively are shownas, for example, “light and thin (2)”. A computer product may havepositive feature and search number combined linguistic units shown on apage thereof that include “screen color (5)”, “closed system (4)”,“light and thin (2)”, “endurable (2)” and “quiet (2)”, which can bedisplayed in the order on the page from higher noticeability by a userto lower noticeability, for example, top to bottom based on theirrespective search numbers; and negative feature and search numbercombined linguistic units of, and in the order of, “high price (3)” and“closed system (2)”. As the feature “closed system” appears both in thepositive and negative feature points and therefore is determined by theremote computing device 1 and/or at least one client device 2 to be aspecial feature point, its search number is determined by the remotecomputing device 1 and/or at least one client device 2 to be the sum ofthe search numbers, 4 and 2, thereof respectively in the positive andnegative features, that is, 6, and is shown collectively with thefeature “closed system” as a special feature and search number combinedlinguistic unit “closed system (6)” at a place on the page that isnearer the top thereof, or more noticeable by a user searching forproducts on the website, than the positive and negative feature andsearch number combined linguistic units.

In certain embodiments, the higher the search number of a keywordsearched by users on the product review website 4 is, for example, themore times a character, a word, a phrase, a feature point, etc. appears,the priority of the keyword searched is higher, and such a keyword maybe designated, and shown on pages of the product review website 4, as atrending keyword. The trending keyword(s) may be displayed on pages ofthe product review website 4, in addition to the positive, negative, andspecial feature points, with or without search number thereof attachedthereto. It is noted that as a special feature point in the specialfeature and search number combined linguistic unit can be a keyword or acommon meaningful linguistic unit that is designated or appears both inthe positive and negative feature points, as exemplified in the computerproduct referred supra, the weighting value thereof is increasedaccordingly, which makes it easier to be a trending keyword. Forexample, a special feature point may be related to the exemplarycontroversial public figure referred supra, who has vast supporters aswell as opposers and therefore can more easily become a trendingkeyword. Therefore, a supporter of the public figure can easily andswiftly use such a special feature point that is also presented as oneof the trending keyword(s) on pages of the product review website 4 tobrowse and find a piece of goods or service related to the publicfigure, such as a restaurant. As for users who are not familiar with thespecial feature point, such a trending keyword and reviews correspondingthereto offer insight and quick access to current popular issues andtrends in the general public and society.

In certain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 is configured todesignate a keyword or meaningful linguistic unit as a trending keywordin response to determining its search number equals to or exceeds asearch number threshold in a period of time; prioritize the trendingkeyword(s) according to the popularity thereof, for example, therespective search numbers thereof; and establish a trending keyword datacollection that includes the identities and search number of thetrending keyword(s). In certain embodiments, the trending keyword datacollection and the product data collection 182 are integrated as onedata collection, and the keyword information of the pieces of productdata includes trending keyword designation. In certain embodiments, theremote computing device 1 is configured to designate at least onefeature point of a product on the product review website 4 as a trendingkeyword; trace the search number; store and update the search number inthe trending keyword data collection; and generate, and/or update thesearch number displayable on, at least one webpage bearing the searchnumber and related to the product based on the search number in thetrending keyword data collection.

As the trending keyword data collection is a dynamical data collectionwhose content varies with passage of time, at different times, thefeature and search number combined linguistic units displayed, anddiscerned by a user, on a page of the product review website 4 candiffer. In certain embodiments, the trending keyword data collection isupdated by the remote computing device 1 on a real-time basis, or atpredetermined time intervals, such as on a daily basis. In certainembodiments, a feature and search number combined linguistic unit can bea hypertext linking to at least one page displaying the reviews of thegoods or service that contain the feature point corresponding to thefeature and search number combined linguistic unit, or the reviews ofall the goods and/or services on the product review website that containthe feature point corresponding to the feature and search numbercombined linguistic unit. Accordingly, a user can click on a singlehypertext to browse through the reviews of different goods and/orservices.

In addition, the information in the trending keyword data collection, inaddition to serving as the basis of determining the priority of thetrending keyword(s), also serves as reference information for thevarious opinion evaluation system for advertisement placementevaluation. In certain embodiments, the trending keyword data collectionincludes, in addition to the priority and search number information ofeach trending keyword, product information corresponding to eachtrending keyword, such as product names. In certain embodiments, thetrending keyword data collection is organized with multiple productlevels. For example, the trending keyword data collection can haveproduct boxes that correspond to different product categories, eachproduct box includes product layers corresponding to the goods and/orservice(s) in the product category. The remote computing device 1 can,in certain embodiments under the condition that the user has logged inthe product review website 4, generate a user interest list storing theproduct(s) that interests a user of the product review website 4, suchas the goods and/or service(s) the user has browsed on the productreview website 4; retrieve, according to the user interest list and thetrending keyword data collection, the trending keyword(s) correspondingto such goods and/or service(s) and the information of the goods and/orservice(s) corresponding to such trending keyword(s), including thepositive, negative and special feature points of thetrending-keyword-corresponding goods and/or service(s); and generate,and/or update pages of the product review website 4 with the informationof the goods and/or service(s) corresponding to such trendingkeyword(s). In certain embodiments, the remote computing device 1 canretrieve the matching piece(s) of product data in the product datacollection 182 based on the user interest list, and therefore obtain thefeature point information of the product(s) corresponding to thepiece(s) of product data. For example, a user may have searched for acomputer product on the product review website 4, and the computerproduct is classified in a product layer in a computer box of thetrending keyword data collection and corresponds to multiple trendingkeywords. Accordingly, information of the product(s) related to thecomputer product can be recommended by the remote computing device 1 tothe user. In certain embodiments, the user interest list is incorporatedwith the product data collection 182. By generating at least one page ofthe product review website 4 that contains the information of the goodsand/or service(s) corresponding to the trending keyword(s) related to atleast one piece of goods or service that is designated as interested bya user, such as one in the user interest list, and/or updating at leastone page of the product review website 4 with the information of thegoods and/or service(s) corresponding to the trending keyword(s), theremote computing device 1 can recommend to a user, and place on thepage(s), advertisements of the goods and/or service(s) corresponding tothe trending keyword(s).

In certain embodiments, the product review website 4 recommends to auser and places advertisement on the page(s) thereon for at least oneproduct in the user interest list through a keyword advertisementalgorithm executed by the remote computing device 1. A keywordadvertisement module of the remote computing device 1 applies thekeyword advertisement algorithm on at least one product in the userinterest list by comparing a first product name of a first product inthe user interest list with each second product name of each secondproduct in the trending keyword data collection for similarity;determining a first numeral value positively correlative to the productname similarity; comparing each feature point of the first product witheach trending keyword in the trending keyword data collection forsimilarity; determining a second numeral value positively correlative tothe feature point-trending keyword similarity; and generating a keyadvertisement value based on the first and second numeral values. Incertain embodiments, the keyword advertisement module is furtherconfigured to determine whether the first and the second products are inthe same product category declared by the remote computing device 1, andin response to determining the first and second products are in the sameproduct category, for example, a 3C, Home appliance, stationerycategory, etc., raise the first numeral value. In certain embodiments,the key advertisement value is generated by multiplying the firstnumeral value by the second numeral value. In certain embodiments, thekeyword advertisement algorithm includes a name similarity valuealgorithm through which the first numeral value is determined, and akeyword similarity algorithm through which the second numeral value isdetermined, and the respective determination of the first and secondnumeral values are mutually independent. The keyword advertisementmodule is further configured to select at least one product having akeyword advertisement value higher or equal to a threshold or ranking,generate at least one piece of advertisement information of the product,and generate or update pages of the product review website 4 with thepiece of advertisement information. As the respective determination ofthe first and second numeral values are mutually independent, in certainembodiments, if the second numeral value is preset to 1, theadvertisement generation and recommendation would be based only on theproduct name similarity and not on the keyword similarity; and incertain embodiments, as referred supra, when the keyword similarityserves as the basis of advertisement generation and recommendation,correlation analysis can be performed for advertisement placement on thefeature point(s) of a product and the trending keyword(s), by whichhorizontal linking is established between the feature point(s) and thetrending keyword(s).

For example, assuming a user searches for “reusable food bag” on a page,either a search page or a product page with a search bar, on the productreview website 4, either on a computer or a mobile application, similaror same product names can be outputted by and shown on the productreview website 4, among which the user may click on one product name,for example, “reusable silicone food bag”, and the search behavior,searched text and selection of the user is tracked and stored in theuser interest list of the user. Upon receipt of the user request for the“reusable silicone food bag”, the remote computing device 1 retrievesthe matching piece(s) of product data in the product data collection182, and thereby avails the product and review pages of the exemplary“reusable silicone food bag” to the user, which may contain positive andnegative feature points, such as “environmentally friendly”, “reusable”,“easy to clean”, “microwaveable” and “open with one hand”, and “leakswhen filled with liquid”, respectively, while a special feature pointmay not exist when the positive feature(s) and the negative feature(s)do not have intersection. Thereafter, the remote computing device 1 cansearch for and identify the product(s) designated with trending keywordssharing text similarity with the feature points of the “reusablesilicone food bag”, for example, a silicone cotton swab product havingpositive feature points of “environmentally friendly”, “reusable”,“colorful” and “makeup removal” and a negative feature point of “doesnot absorb water and needs more cleaning time”, and an eco-friendly shoeproduct having a special feature point of “environmentally friendly”,positive feature points of “comfortable and eco-friendly”,“environmentally friendly material” and “earth love” and a negativefeature point of “environmentally friendly but crumbly”.

Accordingly, even though the product categories of the reusable siliconefood bag, the silicone cotton swab product and the eco-friendly shoeproduct may be different, as the feature points of “reusable” and“environmentally friendly” are shared by the “reusable silicone foodbag” and the silicone cotton swab product, and “reusable” is share bythe “reusable silicone food bag” and the eco-friendly shoe product,product information and review information thereof by other users of thesilicone cotton swab product and the eco-friendly shoe product may bedisplayed at an advertisement section of a page of the product reviewwebsite 4 the user is browsing on. Such advertisement product and reviewinformation can include positive, negative and special feature pointinformation and virtual button and/or hypertext thereof, by which theuser can be guided to, by clicking thereon, a detailed information pageof the product(s) of the advertisement, for example, a page of theofficial website of the silicone cotton swab product or the eco-friendlyshoe product, a page showing the review(s) of the silicone cotton swabproduct or the eco-friendly shoe product, etc., for better advertisingand marketing effects.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods forgenerating at least one special feature point based on positive andnegative feature points. FIGS. 15-16D show flowcharts of methods forgenerating at least one special feature point based on positive andnegative feature points. In certain embodiments, the methods accordingto the present disclosure, including those exemplarily shown in FIGS.15-16D, can be implemented on or by the various opinion evaluationsystem, the remote computing device 1, and/or at least one client device2 according to the present disclosure. It should be particularly notedthat, unless otherwise stated in the present disclosure, the sequence ofthe steps and/or procedures of the methods according to the presentdisclosure can be varied as desired, such as being arranged in asequential order different from those described in, and/or the figuresand flowcharts of, the present disclosure, and is not necessarily in orlimited to the sequential order of the description in, and/or thefigures and flowcharts of, the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 15, at procedure 200, one or more first computingdevices being the remote computing device 1 and/or at least one clientdevice 2 will receive a piece of positive review information related toa product and a piece of negative review information from one or moresecond computing devices being at least one client device 2 and/or theremote computing device 1 through one or more product review messages,for example, but not limited to, a product review message having thepiece of positive review information related to the product and havingthe piece of negative review information related to the product, atleast one first product review message having the piece of positivereview information related to the product from at least one first clientdevice 2 and at least one second product review message different fromor the same as the first product review message and having the piece ofnegative review information from at least one second client device 2 thesame or different from the first client device 2, etc., which productreview message(s) may be received, for example, by the remote computingdevice 1 from one or more client devices 2, by one or more clientdevices 2 from one or more client devices 2, by one or more clientdevices 2 from the remote computing device 1 and one or more clientdevices 2, etc. In certain embodiments, the at least one first computingdevice being at least one client device 2 and/or the remote computingdevice 1 can receive the piece of positive review information related tothe product and the piece of negative review information related to theproduct by being inputted with the positive and negative information byat least one user. At procedure 202, one or more semantics analysismodules of one or more first computing devices, for example, thesemantics analysis module 17, will perform positive review semanticsanalysis on the positive review information and perform negative reviewsemantics analysis on the negative review information. In certainembodiments, the positive semantics analysis includes segmenting thetext of the positive review information into semantically meaningfulpositive keywords, and the negative review semantics analysis includessegmenting the text of the negative review information into semanticallymeaningful negative keywords. At procedure 204, one or more featurepoint generation modules of one or more of the first and secondcomputing devices, for example, the feature point generation module 16,will generate at least one positive feature point based on the positivereview semantics analysis and generate at least one negative featurepoint based on the negative review semantics analysis. At procedure 206,the one or more feature point generation modules of one or more of thefirst and second computing devices will merge the positive feature pointand the negative feature point based on the similarity therebetween togenerate at least one special feature point. However, the presentdisclosure is not limited thereto, and the receipt of one product reviewmessage may be before, at the same time or later than the receipt ofanother product review message or the positive or negative reviewsemantics analysis, and the positive review semantics analysis may beperformed before, at the same time or later than the negative reviewsemantics analysis.

Referring to FIG. 16A, in certain embodiments, procedure 202 ofperforming positive and negative review semantics analysis on thepositive and negative review information further includes procedures2021 to 2024. At procedure 2021, the one or more semantics analysismodules, for example, the semantics analysis module 17 and/or thesemantics analysis module of at least one client device 2, will performpositive semantics analysis on the positive review information, forexample, segmenting text of the positive review information, to generatea plurality of semantically meaningful positive keywords, and performnegative semantics analysis on the negative review information, forexample, segmenting text of the negative review information, to generatea plurality of semantically meaningful negative keywords. At procedure2022, the one or more semantics analysis modules will assign positivekeywords that have semantic overlapping into the same first semanticgroup, and assign negative keywords that have semantic overlapping intothe same second semantic group. At procedure 2023, the one or moresemantics analysis modules will determine a first semantic overlappingdegree of the first semantic group, wherein the first semanticoverlapping degree is any semantic overlapping between any two positivekeywords in the same first semantic group; and determine a secondsemantic overlapping degree of the second semantic group, wherein thesecond semantic overlapping degree is any semantic overlapping betweenany two negative keywords in the same second semantic group. Atprocedure 2024, the one or more semantics analysis modules willdetermine a first semantic overlapping ratio of each of the positivekeywords in the same first semantic group, wherein the first semanticoverlapping ratio is a ratio of any semantic overlapping between thepositive keyword and any other positive keyword in the same firstsemantic group to the first semantic overlapping degree, and determine asecond semantic overlapping ratio of each of the negative keywords inthe same second semantic group, wherein the second semantic overlappingratio is a ratio of any semantic overlapping between the negativekeyword and any other negative keyword in the same second semantic groupto the second semantic overlapping degree. However, the presentdisclosure is not limited thereto, and any procedure above generating orperformed to the positive keywords may be performed before, at the sametime or after any procedure above generating or performed to thenegative keywords.

Referring to FIG. 16A, procedure 204 of generating at least one positivefeature point and at least one negative feature point based on thepositive and negative review semantics analysis further includesprocedures 2041 to 2042. At procedure 2041, the one or more featurepoint generation modules, for example, the feature point generationmodule 16 and/or the feature point generation module(s) of at least oneclient device 2, will define and output one of the positive keywords inthe same first semantic group that has a highest first semanticoverlapping ratio among the first semantic overlapping ratios as thepositive feature point, and one of the negative keywords in the samesecond semantic group that has a highest second semantic overlappingratio among the second semantic overlapping ratios as the negativefeature point. At procedure 2042, the one or more feature pointgeneration modules will define and output a first weighting value of thepositive feature point as a sum of weighting values of the positivekeywords in the same first semantic group to which the positive featurepoint belongs, and a second weighting value of the negative featurepoint as a sum of weighting values of the negative keywords in the samesecond semantic group to which the negative feature point belongs.However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and anyprocedure above that generates or is performed to the positive featurepoint may be performed before, at the same time or after any procedureabove that generates or is performed to the negative feature point.

Referring to FIG. 16B, in certain embodiments, procedure 206 of mergingthe positive and negative feature points based on the similaritytherebetween and generating at least one special feature point based onthe merge further includes procedures 2060, 2061 and 2064. At procedure2060, one or more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the firstand second computing devices, for example, the semantics analysis module17 and/or the semantics analysis module of at least one client device 2,will compare the positive feature point with the negative feature point.At procedure 2061, the one or more semantics analysis modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices will determine whether atleast one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positivefeature point and the negative feature point based on the comparison. Atprocedure 2064, in response to determining at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point andthe negative feature point, the one or more feature point generationmodules, for example, the feature point generation module 16 and/or thefeature point generation module of at least one client device 2, willdefine and output the common meaningful linguistic unit as the specialfeature point, and define a weighting value of the special feature pointas a sum of the first weighting value of the positive feature point andthe second weighting value of the negative feature point. Further, inresponse to determining no common meaningful linguistic unit exists bothin the positive feature point and the negative feature point, the remotecomputing device 1 and/or the at least one client device 2 can end thespecial feature point generation procedures.

Referring to FIGS. 16C and 16D, in certain embodiments, procedure 206further includes procedures 2062, 2063 and 2065-2071. At procedure 2062,in response to determining at least one common meaningful linguisticunit exists both in the positive feature and negative feature points,the one or more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the firstand second computing devices will determine whether the commonmeaningful linguistic unit is a positive feature point or a negativefeature point, that is, whether the positive feature point is thenegative feature point. In response to determining no common meaningfullinguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point and thenegative feature point, proceed to procedure 2063. In response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is a positive featurepoint or a negative feature point, that is, the positive feature pointis the negative feature point, proceed to procedure 2064. In response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is not a positivefeature point and not a negative feature point, proceed to procedure2066. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In certainembodiments, the sequence of procedures 2061 and 2062 may be reversedwith the semantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysismodule of at least one client device 2 determining, in response todetermining the positive feature point is not the negative featurepoint, whether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit existsboth in the positive and negative feature points.

At procedure 2063, the one or more semantics analysis modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices, for example, thesemantics analysis module 17 and/or the semantics analysis module of atleast one client device 2, will determine whether at least one firstlinguistic unit in at least one positive feature point and at least onesecond linguistic unit in at least one negative feature point aresemantically similar linguistic units. In response to determining thereare semantically similar linguistic units, and therefore the positiveand negative feature points are semantically similar feature points,proceed to procedure 2065. In response to determining there is nosemantically similar linguistic units, end the special feature pointgeneration procedure. At procedure 2065, the one or more semanticsanalysis modules of one or more of the first and second computingdevices will designate one of the semantically similar linguistic unitsas the common meaningful linguistic unit, and the method proceeds toprocedures 2066-2071 to generate at least one special feature point thatis either the positive feature point, the negative feature point, or thecommon meaningful linguistic unit based on a balance curve algorithm.For example, a hypernym is designated as the common meaningfullinguistic unit when the rest of the semantically similar linguisticunits are hyponyms thereto, or when all semantically similar linguisticunits are synonyms, one that is determined to be used most often isdesignated. In certain embodiments, procedures 2063 and 2065 may beomitted, and the special feature point generation procedure is ended inresponse to determining there is no common meaningful linguistic unit inprocedure 2061.

Referring to FIG. 16D, in certain embodiments, at procedure 2066, theone or more feature point generation modules will generate a firstnumeral value according to the weighting values of the positive andnegative feature points corresponding to the common meaningfullinguistic unit, and a second numeral value according to the weightingvalues of the positive and negative feature points corresponding to thecommon meaningful linguistic unit. At procedure 2067, the one or morefeature point generation modules will determine whether the firstnumeral value is greater than a predetermined positive-featurethreshold. At procedure 2068, in response to determining the firstnumeral value is greater than the positive-feature threshold, the one ormore feature point generation modules will define and output thepositive feature point as the special feature point. In response todetermining the first numeral value is not greater than thepositive-feature threshold, proceed to procedure 2069. At procedure2069, the one or more feature point generation modules will determinewhether the second numeral value is greater than a predeterminednegative-feature threshold. At procedure 2070, in response todetermining the second numeral value is greater than thenegative-feature threshold, the one or more feature point generationmodules will define and output the negative feature point as the specialfeature point. At procedure 2071, in response to determining the secondnumeral value is not greater than the negative-feature threshold, theone or more feature point generation modules will define and output thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.

However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and theprocedure 2067 may be performed before or after procedure 2069. Incertain embodiments the one or more feature point generation moduleswill first determine whether the second numeral value is greater thanthe predetermined negative-feature threshold; in response to determiningthe second numeral value is greater than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, define and output the negative feature pointas the special feature point; in response to determining the secondnumeral value is not greater than the predetermined negative-featurethreshold, determine whether the first numeral value is greater than apredetermined positive-feature threshold; in response to determining thefirst numeral value is greater than a predetermined positive-featurethreshold, define and output the positive feature point as the specialfeature point; and in response to determining the first numeral value isnot greater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold, define andoutput the common meaningful linguistic unit as the special featurepoint. In certain embodiments, procedure 2065 may be performed before,at the same time or after any of procedures 2066-2070.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are related to anon-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executablecode. The computer executable code, when executed at one or moreprocesser, can perform the tasks of the modules and the methods asdescribed supra. In certain embodiments, the non-transitory computerreadable medium can be implemented as the storage device 14 of theremote computing device 1 and/or the storage device of at least oneclient device 2, and may include at least one physical or virtualstorage media. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

The foregoing description of the exemplary embodiments of the disclosurehas been presented only for the purposes of illustration and descriptionand is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to theprecise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possiblein light of the above teaching.

The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain theprinciples of the disclosure and their practical application so as toenable others skilled in the art to utilize the disclosure and variousembodiments and with various modifications as are suited to theparticular use contemplated. Alternative embodiments will becomeapparent to those skilled in the art to which the present disclosurepertains without departing from its spirit and scope.

What is claimed is:
 1. A various opinion evaluation system, comprisingone or more computing devices comprising one or more processors and oneor more storage devices storing computer executable code, wherein eachof the one or more computing devices is a remote computing device or aclient device communicable with the remote computing device, and thecomputer executable code, when executed at the one or more processors,is configured to: receive a piece of positive review information relatedto a product and a piece of negative review information related to theproduct through at least one product review message or inputted at theone or more computing devices by at least one user; perform positivereview semantics analysis on the positive review information, andperform negative review semantics analysis on the negative reviewinformation; generate at least one positive feature point of the productbased on the positive review semantics analysis, and generate at leastone negative feature point of the product based on the negative reviewsemantics analysis; and generate at least one special feature point bymerging the positive feature point and the negative feature point basedon similarity therebetween.
 2. The system according to claim 1, whereinthe computer executable code of the one or more computing devices, whenexecuted at the one or more processors, is configured to: segment textof the positive review information into a plurality of semanticallymeaningful positive keywords, and segment text of the negative reviewinformation into a plurality of semantically meaningful negativekeywords; and assign at least two of the semantically meaningfulpositive keywords that have semantic overlapping into the same firstsemantic group, and assign at least two of the semantically meaningfulnegative keywords that have semantic overlapping into the same secondsemantic group.
 3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the computerexecutable code of the one or more computing devices, when executed atthe one or more processors, is configured to: determine a first semanticoverlapping degree of the first semantic group, wherein the firstsemantic overlapping degree is any semantic overlapping between any twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup; determine a second semantic overlapping degree of the secondsemantic group, wherein the second semantic overlapping degree is anysemantic overlapping between any two semantically meaningful negativekeywords in the same second semantic group; determine a first semanticoverlapping ratio of each of the at least two semantically meaningfulpositive keywords in the same first semantic group, wherein the firstsemantic overlapping ratio is a ratio of any semantic overlappingbetween the semantically meaningful positive keyword and any othersemantically meaningful positive keyword in the same first semanticgroup to the first semantic overlapping degree; and determine a secondsemantic overlapping ratio of each of the at least two semanticallymeaningful negative keywords in the same second semantic group, whereinthe second semantic overlapping ratio is a ratio of any semanticoverlapping between the semantically meaningful negative keyword and anyother semantically meaningful negative keyword in the same secondsemantic group to the second semantic overlapping degree.
 4. The systemaccording to claim 3, wherein the computer executable code of the one ormore computing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, isconfigured to: define one of the semantically meaningful positivekeywords in the same first semantic group that has a highest firstsemantic overlapping ratio among the first semantic overlapping ratiosas the positive feature point; define one of the semantically meaningfulnegative keywords in the same second semantic group that has a highestsecond semantic overlapping ratio among the second semantic overlappingratios as the negative feature point; define a first weighting value ofthe positive feature point as a sum of weighting values of thesemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup to which the positive feature point belongs; and define a secondweighting value of the negative feature point as a sum of weightingvalues of the semantically meaningful negative keywords in the samesecond semantic group to which the negative feature point belongs. 5.The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer executable code ofthe one or more computing devices, when executed at the one or moreprocessors, is configured to: compare the positive feature point withthe negative feature point; determine whether at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point andthe negative feature point based on the comparison; and in response todetermining at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists bothin the positive feature point and the negative feature point, define thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point, anddefine a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of afirst weighting value of the positive feature point and a secondweighting value of the negative feature point.
 6. The system accordingto claim 1, wherein the computer executable code of the one or morecomputing devices, when executed at the one or more processors, isconfigured to: generate a first numeral value according to a firstweighting value of the positive feature point and a second weightingvalue of the negative feature point, and generate a second numeral valueaccording to the first weighting value of the positive feature point andthe second weighting value of the negative feature point; compare thepositive feature point with the negative feature point; determinewhether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both inthe positive feature point and the negative feature point based on thecomparison; determine whether the common meaningful linguistic unit isthe positive feature point or the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point, define the positive featurepoint or the negative feature point as the special feature point, anddefine a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is not the positivefeature point and not the negative feature point, determine whether thefirst numeral value is greater than a predetermined positive-featurethreshold, and determine whether the second numeral value is greaterthan a predetermined negative-feature threshold; in response todetermining the first numeral value is greater than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, define the positive feature point as thespecial feature point; in response to determining the second numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,define the negative feature point as the special feature point; and inresponse to determining the first numeral value is smaller than thepredetermined positive-feature threshold and the second numeral value issmaller than the predetermined negative-feature threshold, define thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.
 7. Thesystem according to claim 1, wherein the computer executable code of theone or more computing devices, when executed at the one or moreprocessors, is configured to: generate a first numeral value accordingto a first weighting value of the positive feature point and a secondweighting value of the negative feature point, and generate a secondnumeral value according to the first weighting value of the positivefeature point and the second weighting value of the negative featurepoint; compare the positive feature point with the negative featurepoint; determine whether at least one common meaningful linguistic unitexists both in the positive feature point and the negative feature pointbased on the comparison; determine whether the common meaningfullinguistic unit is the positive feature point or the negative featurepoint; in response to determining the common meaningful linguistic unitis the positive feature point or the negative feature point, define thepositive feature point or the negative feature point as the specialfeature point, and define a weighting value of the special feature pointas a sum of the first weighting value of the positive feature point andthe second weighting value of the negative feature point; in response todetermining no common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in thepositive and negative feature points, determine whether at least onefirst linguistic unit in the positive feature point and at least onesecond linguistic unit in the negative feature point are semanticallysimilar linguistic units; in response to determining the first andsecond linguistic units are semantically similar linguistic units,designate one of the first and second linguistic units as the commonmeaningful linguistic unit, and determine whether the first numeralvalue is greater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold andwhether the second numeral value is greater than a predeterminednegative-feature threshold; in response to determining the first numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined positive-feature threshold,define the positive feature point as the special feature point; inresponse to determining the second numeral value is greater than thepredetermined negative-feature threshold, define the negative featurepoint as the special feature point; and in response to determining thefirst numeral value is smaller than the predetermined positive-featurethreshold and the second numeral value is smaller than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, define the common meaningful linguistic unitas the special feature point.
 8. A product special feature pointgeneration method, comprising: receiving, by one or more first computingdevices, a piece of positive review information related to a product anda piece of negative review information related to the product inputtedat the one or more first computing devices by at least one user orthrough at least one product review message from one or more secondcomputing devices, wherein each of the first and second computingdevices is a remote computing device or a client device communicablewith the remote computing device; performing, by one or more semanticsanalysis modules of the one or more first computing devices, positivereview semantics analysis on the positive review information andnegative review semantics analysis on the negative review information;generating, by one or more feature point generation modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices, at least one positivefeature point of the product based on the positive review semanticsanalysis and at least one negative feature point of the product based onthe negative review semantics analysis; and generating, by the one ormore feature point generation modules, at least one special featurepoint by merging the positive feature point and the negative featurepoint based on similarity therebetween.
 9. The method according to claim8, wherein the step of performing positive review semantics analysis onthe positive review information and negative review semantics analysison the negative review information includes: segmenting, by the one ormore semantics analysis modules, text of the positive review informationinto a plurality of semantically meaningful positive keywords, andsegmenting text of the negative review information into a plurality ofsemantically meaningful negative keywords; and assigning, by the one ormore semantics analysis modules, at least two of the semanticallymeaningful positive keywords that have semantic overlapping into thesame first semantic group, and at least two of the semanticallymeaningful negative keywords that have semantic overlapping into thesame second semantic group.
 10. The method according to claim 9, whereinthe step of performing positive review semantics analysis on thepositive review information and negative review semantics analysis onthe negative review information further includes: determining, by theone or more semantics analysis modules, a first semantic overlappingdegree of the first semantic group, wherein the first semanticoverlapping degree is any semantic overlapping between any twosemantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup; determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules, asecond semantic overlapping degree of the second semantic group, whereinthe second semantic overlapping degree is any semantic overlappingbetween any two semantically meaningful negative keywords in the samesecond semantic group; determining, by the one or more semanticsanalysis modules, a first semantic overlapping ratio of each of the atleast two semantically meaningful positive keywords in the same firstsemantic group, wherein the first semantic overlapping ratio is a ratioof any semantic overlapping between the semantically meaningful positivekeyword and any other semantically meaningful positive keyword in thesame first semantic group to the first semantic overlapping degree; anddetermining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules, a secondsemantic overlapping ratio of each of the at least two semanticallymeaningful negative keywords in the same second semantic group, whereinthe second semantic overlapping ratio is a ratio of any semanticoverlapping between the semantically meaningful negative keyword and anyother semantically meaningful negative keyword in the same secondsemantic group to the second semantic overlapping degree.
 11. The methodaccording to claim 10, wherein the step of generating the at least onepositive feature point and at least one negative feature point includes:defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, one ofthe semantically meaningful positive keywords in the same first semanticgroup that has a highest first semantic overlapping ratio among thefirst semantic overlapping ratios as the positive feature point;defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, one ofthe semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same secondsemantic group that has a highest second semantic overlapping ratioamong the second semantic overlapping ratios as the negative featurepoint; defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, afirst weighting value of the positive feature point as a sum ofweighting values of the semantically meaningful positive keywords in thesame first semantic group to which the positive feature point belongs;and defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, asecond weighting value of the negative feature point as a sum ofweighting values of the semantically meaningful negative keywords in thesame second semantic group to which the negative feature point belongs.12. The method according to claim 8, the step of generating at least onespecial feature point further includes: comparing, by one or moresemantics analysis modules of one or more of the first and secondcomputing devices, the positive feature point with the negative featurepoint; determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules of oneor more of the first and second computing devices, whether at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive featurepoint and the negative feature point based on the comparison; and inresponse to determining at least one common meaningful linguistic unitexists both in the positive feature point and the negative featurepoint, defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules,the common meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point, anddefining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, aweighting value of the special feature point as a sum of a firstweighting value of the positive feature point and a second weightingvalue of the negative feature point.
 13. The method according to claim8, the step of generating at least one special feature point furtherincludes: generating, by the one or more feature point generationmodules, a first numeral value according to a first weighting value ofthe positive feature point and a second weighting value of the negativefeature point, and a second numeral value according to the firstweighting value of the positive feature point and the second weightingvalue of the negative feature point; comparing, by one or more semanticsanalysis modules of one or more of the first and second computingdevices, the positive feature point with the negative feature point;determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices, whether at least onecommon meaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive featurepoint and the negative feature point based on the comparison;determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modules of one ormore of the first and second computing devices, whether the commonmeaningful linguistic unit is the positive feature point or the negativefeature point; in response to determining the common meaningfullinguistic unit is the positive feature point or the negative featurepoint, defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules,the positive feature point or the negative feature point as the specialfeature point, and defining, by the one or more feature point generationmodules, a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is not the positivefeature point and not the negative feature point, determining, by theone or more feature point generation modules, whether the first numeralvalue is greater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold, anddetermining, by the one or more feature point generation modules,whether the second numeral value is greater than a predeterminednegative-feature threshold; in response to determining the first numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined positive-feature threshold,defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, thepositive feature point as the special feature point; in response todetermining the second numeral value is greater than the predeterminednegative-feature threshold, defining, by the one or more feature pointgeneration modules, the negative feature point as the special featurepoint; and in response to determining the first numeral value is smallerthan the predetermined positive-feature threshold and the second numeralvalue is smaller than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.
 14. Themethod according to claim 8, the step of generating at least one specialfeature point further includes: generating, by the one or more featurepoint generation modules, a first numeral value according to a firstweighting value of the positive feature point and a second weightingvalue of the negative feature point, and a second numeral valueaccording to the first weighting value of the positive feature point andthe second weighting value of the negative feature point; comparing, byone or more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the first andsecond computing devices, the positive feature point with the negativefeature point; determining, by the one or more semantics analysismodules of one or more of the first and second computing devices,whether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both inthe positive feature point and the negative feature point based on thecomparison; determining, by the one or more semantics analysis modulesof one or more of the first and second computing devices, whether thecommon meaningful linguistic unit is the positive feature point or thenegative feature point; in response to determining the common meaningfullinguistic unit is the positive feature point or the negative featurepoint, defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules,the positive feature point or the negative feature point as the specialfeature point, and defining, by the one or more feature point generationmodules, a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; in response todetermining no common meaningful linguistic unit exists both in thepositive feature point and the negative feature point, determining, bythe one or more semantics analysis modules of one or more of the firstand second computing devices, whether at least one first linguistic unitin the positive feature point and at least one second linguistic unit inthe negative feature point are semantically similar linguistic units; inresponse to determining the first and second linguistic units aresemantically similar linguistic units, designating, by the one or moresemantics analysis modules of one or more of the first and secondcomputing devices, one of the first and second linguistic units as thecommon meaningful linguistic unit, and determining, by the one or morefeature point generation modules, whether the first numeral value isgreater than a predetermined positive-feature threshold and whether thesecond numeral value is greater than a predetermined negative-featurethreshold; in response to determining the first numeral value is greaterthan the predetermined positive-feature threshold, defining, by the oneor more feature point generation modules, the positive feature point asthe special feature point; in response to determining the second numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,defining, by the one or more feature point generation modules, thenegative feature point as the special feature point; and in response todetermining the first numeral value is smaller than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold and the second numeral value is smaller thanthe predetermined negative-feature threshold, defining, by the one ormore feature point generation modules, the common meaningful linguisticunit as the special feature point.
 15. A non-transitory computerreadable medium storing computer executable code, wherein the computerexecutable code, when executed at one or more processors of one or moreof a remote computing device and at least one client device communicablewith the remote computing device for special feature point generation,is configured to: receive a piece of positive review information relatedto a product and a piece of negative review information related to theproduct through at least one product review message or inputted at theone or more of the remote computing device and the at least one clientdevice by at least one user; perform positive review semantics analysison the positive review information, and perform negative reviewsemantics analysis on the negative review information; generate at leastone positive feature point of the product based on the positive reviewsemantics analysis, and generate at least one negative feature point ofthe product based on the negative review semantics analysis; andgenerate at least one special feature point by merging the positivefeature point and the negative feature point based on similaritytherebetween.
 16. The non-transitory computer readable medium accordingto claim 15, wherein the computer executable code, when executed at theone or more processors, is configured to: segment text of the positivereview information into a plurality of semantically meaningful positivekeywords, and text of the negative review information into a pluralityof semantically meaningful negative keywords; and assign at least two ofthe semantically meaningful positive keywords that have semanticoverlapping into the same first semantic group, and at least two of thesemantically meaningful negative keywords that have semantic overlappinginto the same second semantic group.
 17. The non-transitory computerreadable medium according to claim 16, wherein the computer executablecode, when executed at the one or more processors, is configured to:determine a first semantic overlapping degree of the first semanticgroup, wherein the first semantic overlapping degree is any semanticoverlapping between any two semantically meaningful positive keywords inthe same first semantic group; determine a second semantic overlappingdegree of the second semantic group, wherein the second semanticoverlapping degree is any semantic overlapping between any twosemantically meaningful negative keywords in the same second semanticgroup; determine a first semantic overlapping ratio of each of the atleast two semantically meaningful positive keywords in the same firstsemantic group, wherein the first semantic overlapping ratio is a ratioof any semantic overlapping between the semantically meaningful positivekeyword and any other semantically meaningful positive keyword in thesame first semantic group to the first semantic overlapping degree; anddetermine a second semantic overlapping ratio of each of the at leasttwo semantically meaningful negative keywords in the same secondsemantic group, wherein the second semantic overlapping ratio is a ratioof any semantic overlapping between the semantically meaningful negativekeyword and any other semantically meaningful negative keyword in thesame second semantic group to the second semantic overlapping degree.18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17,wherein the computer executable code, when executed at the one or moreprocessors, is configured to: define one of the semantically meaningfulpositive keywords in the same first semantic group that has a highestfirst semantic overlapping ratio among the first semantic overlappingratios as the positive feature point; define one of the semanticallymeaningful negative keywords in the same second semantic group that hasa highest second semantic overlapping ratio among the second semanticoverlapping ratios as the negative feature point; define a firstweighting value of the positive feature point as a sum of weightingvalues of the semantically meaningful positive keywords in the samefirst semantic group to which the positive feature point belongs; anddefine a second weighting value of the negative feature point as a sumof weighting values of the semantically meaningful negative keywords inthe same second semantic group to which the negative feature pointbelongs.
 19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according toclaim 15, wherein the computer executable code, when executed at the oneor more processors, is configured to: compare the positive feature pointwith the negative feature point; determine whether at least one commonmeaningful linguistic unit exists both in the positive feature point andthe negative feature point based on the comparison; and in response todetermining at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists bothin the positive feature point and the negative feature point, define thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point, anddefine a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of afirst weighting value of the positive feature point and a secondweighting value of the negative feature point.
 20. The non-transitorycomputer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the computerexecutable code, when executed at the one or more processors, isconfigured to: generate a first numeral value according to a firstweighting value of the positive feature point and a second weightingvalue of the negative feature point, and a second numeral valueaccording to the first weighting value of the positive feature point andthe second weighting value of the negative feature point; compare thepositive feature point with the negative feature point; determinewhether at least one common meaningful linguistic unit exists both inthe positive feature point and the negative feature point based on thecomparison; determine whether the common meaningful linguistic unit isthe positive feature point or the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is the positivefeature point or the negative feature point, define the positive featurepoint or the negative feature point as the special feature point, anddefine a weighting value of the special feature point as a sum of thefirst weighting value of the positive feature point and the secondweighting value of the negative feature point; in response todetermining the common meaningful linguistic unit is not the positivefeature point and not the negative feature point, determine whether thefirst numeral value is greater than a predetermined positive-featurethreshold, and determine whether the second numeral value is greaterthan a predetermined negative-feature threshold; in response todetermining the first numeral value is greater than the predeterminedpositive-feature threshold, define the positive feature point as thespecial feature point; in response to determining the second numeralvalue is greater than the predetermined negative-feature threshold,define the negative feature point as the special feature point; and inresponse to determining the first numeral value is smaller than thepredetermined positive-feature threshold and the second numeral value issmaller than the predetermined negative-feature threshold, define thecommon meaningful linguistic unit as the special feature point.